She breaks into the estate to steal secrets, not expecting the owner to be waiting in the dark. He binds her with silk rope, and the moment the knots tighten against her skin, she feels something unlock—a hunger she has buried too long, a need to give up control she barely dared name.
He does not rush. He studies her. He learns where her breath catches, which pulls make her still, which make her shiver. Their nights become a game of touch and withholding, command and hesitant obedience. She hates him for keeping her. She hates herself more for aching when he leaves the room.
Her mission was simple. Now she no longer knows what she wants to finish—except perhaps this, whatever this is between them. The man who should be her enemy has seen her stripped not just of clothes but of every pretense. When he finally takes her, it is not the reward she expected. It is a demand she is desperate to meet.
Full-length dark romance. Captive and captor. Bondage, power exchange, and surrender that cuts both ways.
