Anissa Laurent is a ghost-a master of deception, a woman who has slipped through the cracks of the underworld. Untraceable. Untouchable. Unclaimed. Until me. I made it my life's mission to find her, drag her back where she belongs, and punish her for her betrayal. I traced every false identity until I found her, but I took my time. I studied the way she breathes, the way she moves, what she loves, and what she hates. She thought she could run. She thought she could hide. She thought she could get away with betraying my family. But I'm not a man who lets go of what's mine. She was meant to be broken, to be owned, meant to carry my mark in the most primal way possible. I won't just take her body-she'll have my baby, too. But I didn't expect her to be as broken as I am. I didn't expect her to fight like she has nothing left to lose. And now, I don't just want to cage her-I want to own her. She'll curse me. She'll hate me. She'll claw and bite and scream my name in fury and in pleasure. But in the end, it doesn't matter. Because there is no escape from her past... and definitely not from me.