One signature sold her life away. One look sealed her fate forever.

Dr. Seraphina Laurent spent six years scrubbing her father’s sins off her hands. As the daughter of the city’s most notorious mob boss, she became a top surgeon to save lives, not take them. She thought she was safe within the sterile walls of her hospital. She was wrong.

When the Laurent empire crumbles in a single night of betrayal, the new King of the Underworld rises from the ashes to collect his due.

Kaelen Vane.
Ruthless. Lethal. And terrified by nothing—except the sunrise.

He doesn't want the Laurent territory. He doesn't want the money.
He wants her.

"Your father’s debt is thirty million," Kaelen whispers, his skin unnaturally cold against hers. "You are the collateral."

Dragged into a world of shadows, Seraphina is forced to become the personal surgeon to the Vane Syndicate. Her job is simple: Stitch up the monsters that rule the night. But Kaelen is different from the others. He moves faster than the eye can see. He never sleeps. And he looks at Seraphina not with lust, but with a haunted hunger that spans centuries.

She thinks she is just a prisoner paying off a debt. She doesn't realize she is the reincarnation of the woman he lost five hundred years ago.

He is a carnivore waiting to devour her. She is the only one who can handle his blood.
In a game of life and death, will the surgeon cut out his heart, or will she be the one to finally make it beat again?

The entire world had stopped at the edge of this sand. Beyond the crashing waves, there was no Syndicate, no Council, and no sprawling city with its neon-lit sins and ancient, whispered secrets. All of that had dissolved into a dark mist. There were only the rhythmic, roaring waves, the biting cold salt of the ocean, and the man holding me as if I were the only solid thing left in a universe made of smoke and shadows.


Chapter 58 - He Refused the Neck and Wanted the Heart