Novel Web LGBTQ+ & Cerita Protective Forbidden Love Dark Romance

A king with a secret. A lover he can only touch in darkness. Fourteen days to confess or watch the kingdom burn. Daemon Ashford has ruled Valdris for five years as the Winter King cold, untouchable, a perfect monument to duty. But behind locked doors, he’s someone else entirely. Someone who kneels. Someone who surrenders. Someone who loves Cassian Vale with the kind of desperation that could topple empires. For ten years, they’ve hidden. For ten years, they’ve been careful. But careful isn’t careful enough.

"You came here begging to be destroyed by a stranger, Kaelen... but nobody gets to ruin you except me." To the world, Vance Sterling is the untouchable, dangerously gorgeous heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire and my arrogant stepbrother who takes pleasure in pushing my every button. For years, we’ve lived under the same roof, trapped in a cold war of bitter glances, sharp words, and a suffocating, forbidden tension that kept my blood burning. Driven to my absolute limit and desperate to escape his control, I walked into The Obsidian Vault, the city’s most elite, underground velvet-lined club. Blindfolded, bound, and trembling in the dark, I was ready to surrender my body to the highest bidder just to feel something. The stranger’s touch was raw, commanding, and intoxicatingly possessive. He dismantled my senses piece by piece, driving me to the brink of complete ruin with a dominance that made my soul scream for more. But when the blindfold was ripped away, my breath caught in my throat. It wasn’t a stranger standing over me. It was Vance. His dark eyes weren't filled with mockery anymore. They were ablaze with a terrifying, unhinged obsession. He didn't just catch me. He bought me. He owned the debt, he owned the club, and now he holds a secret that could shatter our family to ash. His price for my protection? A thirty-day contract of total, unabashed submission. Behind closed doors, my cruel stepbrother demands every inch of my body, my breath, and my loyalty. But as our secret, red-hot encounters blur the line between hatred and dangerous addiction, I realize the scariest part isn't the wicked things Vance does to me in the dark... It’s how desperately I’m beginning to crave them.

She was promised the family empire. She never expected to lose her heart to the woman hired to protect it. Lina Kornnaphat has spent her entire life preparing to inherit her family’s billion dollar empire. Brilliant, elegant, and emotionally guarded, she believes nothing matters more than protecting her legacy. But on the night she is announced as the next CEO, an assassination attempt changes everything. To keep her safe, the family hires Aria Sutham, a former military intelligence officer with an unshakable reputation. Calm, fearless, and impossible to manipulate, Aria moves into the Kornnaphat mansion as Lina’s personal bodyguard. Their relationship begins with constant arguments, clashing personalities, and growing resentment as Lina refuses to surrender her freedom. As hidden enemies emerge and dangerous family secrets come to light, Lina realizes the greatest threat isn’t outside the mansion but within her own bloodline. Forced to trust the one woman she cannot control, she slowly finds herself falling for Aria. Bound by duty yet torn by forbidden love, the two women must fight betrayal, power struggles, and impossible choices. When the truth finally surfaces, Lina must decide whether to protect the empire she was born to rule or risk everything for the woman who has become the only place she truly feels safe.

I have been in love with my brother's best friend for fourteen years. It wasn’t a harmless admiration, but love. It was the kind of love that followed me through high school, survived four years away at the university, and it all came rushing back the moment I saw Serena Walsh again. She’s a woman I can’t stop thinking about. A woman who haunts me in my dreams, stars in my fantasies, and also looks at me in ways that makes my heart race and my knees weak. As we spent more time together, it came harder to ignore the tension settling between us. If I however give in to what I want, I could lose my brother, destroy the only family Serena had ever known, and spoil the friendship that has held us together for years. When Serena started pulling away from every woman except me, I began to wonder … Am I the only one fighting this temptation?