Falling in love wasn't the goal. In fact, I didn't think it was possible. That was until Bilan Asad-Yasin turned out to be more than I anticipated when I finally decided to explore her that early spring evening. Those curvy thighs, chiseled cheekbones, auburn freckles, powerful resilience, and endless intellect.

She was a bad decision, this I knew. She'd be a great risk, this I understood. I was an Ellis man, she'd eventually learn. And she did. That's when she ran, attempted to escape a world she'd soon have to learn to navigate and survive.

Yet, I was not the only one with esoteric layers. Bilan had her own secrets she kept from me; from the world. Those were the truths I'd use as fetters to keep her close forever.

She'd now assimilated the Ellis world.

Contains mature themes.