The Master's Edge

He buried his brother in silence. She was supposed to be the price.

Mateo “Toro” Sotolongo does not believe in accidents. When his younger brother is left broken on a dark Raleigh street and the entire crime is erased by old money and colder women, he does not call the police. He starts building a cage.

Allie Hargrove is the perfect key. Soft.

Visible. Engaged to the boy who was driving.

Raised by the woman who cleaned the blood off the asphalt.

Toro does not want her dead. He wants her broken open.

Watched. Owned. Turned into the living reminder that the Caldwells and Hargroves are no longer untouchable.

He takes her without mercy. He chains her to the dark he has lived in his entire life. He teaches her exactly how much a body can endure before it stops belonging to the person it used to be.

But Allie Hargrove was never as soft as she looked. She does not beg to go home. She does not cry for the life that sold her. She looks at the man who thought he was the monster and decides the only way out is through him.

Now the Master who planned every cut is the one bleeding. And the girl who was supposed to be his weapon has become the only thing he cannot afford to lose.

This is not a love story. This is what happens when the dark finally meets something darker.