Kael Arden was seventeen when he was left for dead in a rain-soaked alley, blood pouring from a stab wound. Everyone turned away. Except her. A girl with wide eyes, trembling hands, and a voice that told him, “Hold on.” She kept him alive, then vanished.

He never forgot her.

Years passed. Kael built an empire. Wealth, power, control—he had everything, except the girl who saved him. He searched, obsessively. Until he found her again. Amara.

But she was engaged. Happy. Smiling in white.

That broke him.

So, on her wedding day, he stormed into the church, dragged her away in front of everyone, and disappeared.

He locked her in a remote villa. Surrounded by guards. Forests. Stone.

“You saved me once. I won’t lose you now.”

But Amara wasn’t a fantasy. She was real—and furious. She screamed at him, swore she’d never love him.

He didn’t care.

Then came you.

He met you by chance. Same eyes. Same smile. Same fire. You looked just like her.

But you didn’t know.

You didn’t know someone was locked in a hidden place, surviving off the memory of a rescue gone wrong. You didn’t know Kael held someone else’s life while kissing yours.

He laughed with you. Held your hand. Whispered promises.

And you believed him.

Because he looked at you like you were his everything.

But behind those eyes…

He wasn’t looking at you.

He was looking through you.

At the ghost he refused to let go.