The Monster You Made

She ran from the man who ruined her.
Now he’s burning the world to bring her back.

Vera Calloway disappeared without a trace.
No body.
No goodbye.
Just silence and shadows where she used to be.
The world thinks she’s dead.

Lucian Dane knows better.
He feels it in the way the city holds its breath.
He sees it in the cracks she left behind—too careful, too deliberate.
She didn’t vanish.
She vanished from him.

And that was her first mistake.
Because Lucian doesn’t lose.
Not control.
Not power.
And never the woman he’s already claimed.

Now Protocol Seven is active—
a scorched-earth directive designed to dismantle governments, erase identities, and flood the streets with silence.
He’s using it on his own empire.
And every shattered rule, every vanished ally, is a message written in blood:

Come home. Or I’ll tear down everything you touched.
But Vera isn’t the same woman he lost.
She’s colder now. Sharper.
No longer prey—she’s learned how to stalk the dark.
She knows how he thinks.
Because he taught her.
And now she’s ready to burn the man who lit the match.
Lucian wants her back.
On her knees.
On his terms.
But this time, she won’t break.
This time, she’ll make him bleed for every secret he ever kept.
He made the monster.
Now she’s coming home to show him what it means to belong to one.

Trigger Warnings:
Dark themes, coercion, obsession, power imbalance, stalking, psychological manipulation, explicit sexual content, emotional trauma, trauma recovery, references to trafficking and violence, D/s dynamics, morally gray characters.

18+ Mature Content. This is a dark romance. Read with caution.