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"Everyone leaves me eventually. So why should I let you stay, Eliana?"
Adrian Blackwood has everything a man could ever want—wealth, power, and a name that makes people tremble. Yet behind his fortune lies a man haunted by abandonment, drowning in rage, and slowly losing himself to his own despair.
To everyone else, he is a monster.
To Eliana, he is a broken man hiding behind a heart of ice.
She came into his life looking for a job, never expecting to encounter a man so terrifying, let alone discover the pain buried beneath his cruelty.
She should have stayed away.
Instead, she becomes the one person Adrian cannot bear to lose.
But Adrian’s fear of abandonment runs deeper than Eliana could ever imagine. The closer he lets her get, the more desperately he clings to her—until love begins to blur into obsession.
And when holding on becomes more important to Adrian than letting her choose, Eliana must face a question she never expected to ask:
Can she love the man beneath his cold heart without losing herself to the darkness within him?
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