He meant to take a pawn.
He got a wildfire instead.
Serena
I was taken… again.
Only this time, it feels different. This time, the fear never came.
He has eyes like a raging sea and hands that could break me—yet he hasn’t. Not even close. He’s all rough edges and unspoken pain, a monster forged by a brutal world… but when he looks at me, I don’t feel like his prisoner.
I feel like I belong.
I should want to escape.
But the truth is, I never want to go back.
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He meant to take a pawn.
He got a wildfire instead.
Serena
I was taken… again.
Only this time, it feels different. This time, the fear never came.
He has eyes like a raging sea and hands that could break me—yet he hasn’t. Not even close. He’s all rough edges and unspoken pain, a monster forged by a brutal world… but when he looks at me, I don’t feel like his prisoner.
I feel like I belong.
I should want to escape.
But the truth is, I never want to go back.
Because the most dangerous thing he’s stolen… is my heart.
Markos
They brought me the wrong girl.
She wasn’t supposed to be part of this life—too soft, too innocent, too far from the shadows I rule. She wasn’t my bride. Hell, she wasn’t even on my radar.
But from the moment I laid eyes on her, nothing else mattered.
She challenged me. Matched me. Made me feel things I’d buried long ago.
She says she doesn’t belong here.
But I see it in her eyes—she was born for this darkness.
She’s hiding something… and when I finally uncover the truth, I realize she’s not just mine.
She was always mine.
And I’ll burn the world down before I let her go.