Every monster needs someone who understands them. I never thought it would be me.
As a newly licensed psychologist fresh out of graduate school, I thought I was prepared for anything. Then I met Axel Morrison—charismatic, brilliant, and the most dangerous inmate in the facility. A man whose violent past should have sent warning signals blaring through my mind.
Instead, I found myself drawn to him. To the darkness behind those piercing green eyes that seemed to see right through my professional facade to the shadows Ive spent a lifetime denying.
Each therapy session becomes a dangerous dance. The line between doctor and patient blurring with every session. While Im supposed to be analyzing him, hes methodically taking me apart, piece by piece.
My colleagues warn me, and my training screams at me to maintain boundaries. But the pull between us is electric, inevitable, and completely forbidden.
Ive always been the good girl, the anxious overachiever desperate to help others. Now, Im risking everything—my career, my freedom, my sanity—for a man who destroys everything he touches.
The most terrifying part? As his obsession with me grows, so does mine with him.
They say were all one decision away from disaster. Ive made mine. And these prison walls no longer protect the world from him—they imprison me with my darkest desires.
