I came to VMR to find my best friend. She walked into this billion-dollar media empire and vanished without a trace. No calls. No messages. Just… gone.

So when a job opens up, I take it. I need answers, and the only way to get them is from the inside.

That’s when I meet him.

Lucian Vale. CEO. Enigma. Predator in a perfectly tailored suit.

From the moment his cold gaze locks onto mine, I know he’s not just a man. There’s something ancient in the way he moves, something deadly in the way he watches me. And when he offers me the job as his personal assistant, I know I should run.

But I don’t.

The pull between us is inescapable—dark, primal, and all-consuming. He wants me, but he knows what happened to my friend. I just have to find her before I’m in too deep.

Because in his world, love is a deadly thing. And if I’m not careful, it just might cost me everything.

A Love So Deadly is Part One of the Kiss of Darkness Duet. A shortened version was previously published in the Sinners & Stardust 2025 Anthology, but the story has been expanded for its re-release.