Summary:
To Rian Sol, Ayla Kwon is more than a mystery—she’s a storm he can’t control, the question that refuses an answer. Cold and guarded, Ayla warns him, “Don’t confuse pity with affection. I don’t give my heart to men like you.”
But Rian has already fallen too deep. Once a woman like her stirs his blood and pride, there’s no turning back. She bewitched him, and now she must pay the price.
Love? No.
This is war—wrapped in obsession, fire, and the dangerous game called desire.
Prologue
They say when death comes, your past life flashes like a shattered kaleidoscope.
For Ayla Kwon, tied to a chair in a dark, stinking warehouse, the fragments burned brighter than the ropes cutting into her wrists.
“It was just a job,” she had once told herself. “Nothing more. I chose it because I had no choice. I was pushed, dragged, swallowed whole…”
So why—why, at the edge of death—was she thinking about him?
The man with sharp eyes and a voice like fire and ice. The one she swore she’d never let under her skin.
‘It wasn’t bad,’ she laughed bitterly in her mind. ‘Even now, I’m still pretending it meant nothing.’
But the truth was carved deep in her bones: Rian Sol. The storm she could never escape.
“Water,” she croaked, her lips cracked.
Her captors sneered. “Tell us where the file is, and we’ll give you all the water you want.”
She spat blood instead. The blow that followed blurred her vision again. Darkness pressed in.
Until—
Crash!
The window shattered, icy wind tearing through the silence. Glass rained across the floor, glittering like stars.
A shadow rolled in, rising with lethal grace. The air shifted. Even half-conscious, Ayla knew.
Broad shoulders. Calm, sharp eyes that burned like a predator’s.
Rian Sol.
The man she once tried to outsmart. The man she thought she could keep at arm’s length.
Her curse. Her savior. Her unfinished problem.
And as his gaze locked onto hers, Ayla understood—
This was not the end of her story.
It was only the beginning.
✨ This version:
Keeps the dark, obsessive, dangerous love, possesiveness, dark romance.
Grumpy guy etc..,
