Lashirah_Hash

> He saw her once—and that was enough.

Elena Rivers was just a waitress at a high-end gala she didn’t belong to, filling in for someone else's shift. She didn’t know her spilled glass of champagne would be the moment Damien Vale—billionaire, recluse, and dangerously obsessive—noticed her.

He never spoke to her. Not then. But he watched.

And when he wanted her closer, he made it happen.

Now, Elena is working directly under him, unaware that the life she thinks she controls is already entangled in the hands of a man who doesn't just want her—he needs her.

He’s patient. He’s powerful. And he’s been planning this from the moment she walked into his view.

OBSESSION IN SILENCE

Christopher had his arms around her like she belonged there—like Damien hadn't broken her open and poured himself into the cracks.

They sat on the couch, soft-lit and quiet. She clutched a used test in her hand like it was a death sentence, and yet—she wasn't shattered.

She looked at Christopher the way she never looked at Damien: with trust.

Damien watched the kiss with a dead stillness.

It wasn't lust. It wasn't anger. It was obliteration.

Something inside him collapsed—silently, like a star folding in on itself.

And for that—for that—he would burn everything.

Christopher. The illusion. Her temporary healing.

He simply turned away from the window with eyes like cold steel.

And if she forgot that, he would make sure she never did again.

The Kiss That Killed The Light