Meera Paswan thought she had earned her place on one of the most high-profile cybersecurity projects of her career.

She was wrong.

Alaric Mercer doesn’t choose people by accident.
Powerful, controlled, and impossible to read, he keeps his world locked behind walls no one has ever broken.

And now, Meera is inside it.

What begins as a professional partnership quickly turns into something far more dangerous. Accidents don’t feel like accidents. Eyes seem to follow her. And every time things spiral out of control… Alaric is there.

Watching.
Stepping in.
Saving her.

But the closer Meera gets to the truth, the more unsettling it becomes.

Because trusting him might be her biggest mistake...
and the man she’s beginning to rely on may be the very reason she’s in danger at all.

In a world built on lies, coded loyalty, and buried pasts, trust becomes the deadliest gamble.

Love can break firewalls.
Secrets can burn worlds.

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