𝐈 was born to be a pawn in my father’s game. But he never expected the devil to claim me instead. They dressed me in silk and called it luxury. But gilded cages are still cages—and I was handed over like property… sold to a man who doesn't buy anything. He takes. Lorcan Vesper is everything I was raised to fear—ruthless, calculating, merciless. He says I belong to him now. That my father's debt has a price. And I’m it. He doesn't hurt me. Not in the way I expect. He invades my mind instead—studies my every move, controls without chains, commands without touching. And somehow, it’s worse. Because part of me starts to crave it. Crave him. But I wasn’t made to kneel. I was born with fire in my blood, and I’d rather burn than be owned. Even if part of me wonders what it might feel like to burn in his arms. He thinks I’ll break. He thinks I’ll bend. But I’ve survived men like my father. Now it’s time to survive the monster who just might make me love the cage I swore I’d escape.