I spent a year looking for Demi.
I found her in the dark.
I never wanted a wife. Women were easy. Temporary. I preferred them that way.
Then her. The one woman I couldn’t walk away from.
Then nothing. No goodbye. No explanation. Twelve months of dead ends.
Until a stranger pressed a card into my hand.
JADED.
Invitation only. Every room black. Every man in a mask…
Every name invented. Every voice run through a filter until it belongs to no one.
Nothing to see. Nothing to hear. Nothing I’m allowed to touch.
I know her anyway.
I should walk away.
I keep going back.
But JADED isn’t a playground.
It’s a trap.
And when the men behind it finally make their move, they take her.
They took her to break me.
They should have taken me instead.