Captain Kawriz
For three years, trauma surgeon Mira Castell has secretly stitched together a criminal empire's wounded — without ever seeing the face of the boss who calls her at 2 a.m. and quietly pays off her brother's debts. She tells herself it's an arrangement. She doesn't know it's a trap, built for her alone.
Nico Costa has watched her from a careful distance for three years — learning her habits, her silences, the way she never accepts a gift. He is the heir to an empire soaked in blood, carrying a guilt with a shape he keeps locked away and revisits once a year, always with regret.
When a wound finally forces their first face-to-face meeting, three years of engineered distance collapse in a single night. But nothing between them is what it seems. The debt that trapped her brother wasn't bad luck — it was manufactured, by the very man she's falling for. A rival family is circling. Her hospital is quietly building a case that could end her career. And beneath all of it waits one buried name that will detonate everything she thought she understood about the man she loves.
This is a story about the razor's edge between saving someone and owning them — a love that begins as manipulation and must fight, brutally and honestly, to become something real. Can a lie told out of love ever become a truth worth trusting? And what happens when the safest hands you've ever been in turn out to have built the cage you've been living inside?
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