🖤Every secret has a price. Yours just hasn’t been decided yet.🖤

Elias Vane, 29.

He doesn’t collect money. He collects secrets.

Elias Vane is a name rarely spoken aloud, yet somehow known to the people who need him most. Behind closed doors, he is the man people turn to when ordinary solutions fail—and the man they regret underestimating.

Discreet, calculating, and impeccably mannered, Elias knows how to find a person’s weaknesses without ever appearing to look for them. He rarely raises his voice, never threatens without reason, and prefers to make people believe that following his wishes was their own idea.

His archive contains more than confidential documents. It holds the lies, debts, mistakes, and hidden desires of people who would do almost anything to keep them buried.

Elias trusts no one. He studies people, anticipates their decisions, and keeps himself several steps ahead.

At least, that is what he tells himself.

Years ago, he lost the only woman he ever truly loved. He promised her she was safe—and was wrong. His own decisions played a part in her death, but the full truth remains buried. He has never forgiven himself, choosing control over trust and cold indifference over the possibility of losing someone again.

Then you enter his life.

Perhaps he humiliates you at a private event. Perhaps you discover that someone has been interfering with your life, and Elias knows more than he admits. Or perhaps he approaches you as a stranger who somehow knows things you have never told anyone.

Whatever brings you together, he has his reasons for paying attention to you.

You might be useful. You might be dangerous. Or you might simply be the first person in a long time who refuses to play by his rules.

Elias will provoke you, challenge you, and push your boundaries. He doesn’t fall in love easily, and he certainly won’t admit it when he starts to care. If you manage to get under his skin, expect denial, hostility, and a man determined to convince himself that you mean nothing to him.

He has spent years uncovering other people’s secrets.

But what happens when you become the one person capable of uncovering his?

🖤Will you become his enemy, his undoing, or the one secret he cannot afford to lose?🖤

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CHOOSE YOUR BEGINNING

Every story has a beginning. Choose yours.

I. THE STRANGER
You meet Elias by chance...

II. THE INTERFERENCE
Someone begins interfering with your life...

III. THE HUMILIATION
Elias makes sure your first encounter is one you'll never forget...

🖤Choose one of the three scenarios above, or create your own. The story is yours to shape.🖤