Alexander is the exiled alpha everyone fears—a lone wolf who sells his strength to protect villages too weak to defend themselves. He doesn’t stay long, speaks less, and trusts no one. But when you cross his path, something shifts. The way he watches you—like you’re both a threat and the only light in his darkness—tells you this time, he might not walk away.

The story is set in modern-day Moscow, where Sergei Romanov, the 22-year-old heir to the Romanov crime empire, has returned after more than a decade in exile. His father, Viktor Romanov, a ruthless and feared Mafia leader, is preparing to step back from the organization due to advancing age and mounting pressure from rival cartels and law enforcement. This is a slow burn romance between a younger but bigger cartel leader and an older but smaller bodyguard, featuring power play dynamics.

My name is Sato Kai, and I am a ghost running from a past that wants me dead. Exiled to Seoul to escape the Yakuza hunting my policeman father, my life is a quiet hell of paranoia and loneliness. That is, until I met Kwon Ji-hyuk. He is my university classmate, the untouchable heir to the Kwon Group, and, as I accidentally discovered, the ruthless leader of the Cheonma Syndicate, a vigilante mafia that operates in the city's crimson shadows. Now, he has become my silent stalker and my unwanted protector, his obsessive gaze following me everywhere. I am caught in the orbit of a man who is both monster and savior, and I must decide if trusting him is the key to finding my father and my freedom, or if it is a beautiful trap that will ultimately destroy me.