London isn't my home, but it's where I am.

I should be thankful for what I've been offered: a great job, a penthouse apartment, and some kind of family wrapped around me. But I'm not thankful. I'm angry, unable to move on because I have no answers, and trapped between the past and the future.

That's what they did to me.

They tainted everything around me – forever.

I'll never forget.

And then he arrived to prove me right.

It was a date.

A drunken night that turned into something I thought was real.

It wasn't. It was my nightmares returning.

Shaw Cortez was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Charming. Beautiful. Brutal.

He made me feel things I'd forgotten, and then he took what little trust I had and scarred it further.

I'm not the same girl now, though.

I'm no one's property.

This time, I fought.