The Billionaire’s Blood-Oath Bride
The descent into the "Deep-Sea Graveyard" was a silent, claustrophobic journey through a world where the sun had been forgotten for a thousand years, Verina sat in the cockpit of the Vane-designed submersible, her hands gripped so tightly around the controls that her knuckles were white and bloodless. Outside the reinforced crystalline hull, the water was a thick, ink-black void, broken only by the occasional ghostly flash of bioluminescent creatures that darted away from the sub’s powerful searchlights. The pressure gauge on the dashboard climbed steadily, a rhythmic, metallic ticking that felt like the countdown to an execution, she could hear the hull groaning under the weight of the Atla
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