Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
326
Language
English
Published
Jun 9, 2026
Description
She broke into my house. I liked it.
Three AM. Someone breaches my family's server. I'm military-trained, paranoid, loyal to the Ellery name — I built these walls. Then Naomi Whitmore walks through my library door holding stolen files and a look that makes my discipline irrelevant.
She touches every door frame she passes through. Counting exits. She learned that inside the system my mother designed. The system I've been guarding.
Her files prove my family's legacy is a behavioral modification program that disappeared women for decades. My aunt was the first subject.
Dark romance. Enemies in a library at 3 AM. Running together by dawn.
Now we're burning through safe houses, trading secrets for survival, and the only place I stop shaking is pressed against her in the dark. My mother's protection keeps us alive.
Her protection has always been the cage.
Three AM. Someone breaches my family's server. I'm military-trained, paranoid, loyal to the Ellery name — I built these walls. Then Naomi Whitmore walks through my library door holding stolen files and a look that makes my discipline irrelevant.
She touches every door frame she passes through. Counting exits. She learned that inside the system my mother designed. The system I've been guarding.
Her files prove my family's legacy is a behavioral modification program that disappeared women for decades. My aunt was the first subject.
Dark romance. Enemies in a library at 3 AM. Running together by dawn.
Now we're burning through safe houses, trading secrets for survival, and the only place I stop shaking is pressed against her in the dark. My mother's protection keeps us alive.
Her protection has always been the cage.