Lords Of Pain

Killian, Tristian, and Rath are ghosts from a past I tried to bury, three men who once held all the power while I had none. Back in high school, they knew my secrets just as I knew theirs, but the night everything shattered, they proved exactly who they were. My stepbrother stood by and watched as his best friends took their anger out on me, laughing like it was nothing. What they did that night should have broken me, but it wasn’t even my darkest secret, so I ran, determined to never return.

Three years later, I’m back on their doorstep with nowhere else to go. They’ve only grown stronger, rising to power as Lords at Forsyth University, while I’m still running, still trying to escape something even worse. Because they’re not the only ones who want me. There’s someone else out there, someone far more dangerous, who’s been hunting me since the day I left. Suddenly, the monsters I know don’t seem as terrifying as the one I don’t.

Fear, shame, desperation, they’re the only things that could have driven me back into their world, into their control. Being their Lady might come with status and protection, but it also means something else entirely. Because while I may be under their roof, I’m not safe. I’m still at their mercy.