Voracious

Kade sends Stacey to safety; her abuser is already in the car

Stacey lands in Glasgow after Kade's bodyguard Barry rushed her onto a private jet from America.

Kade sends Stacey to safety; her abuser is already in the car

Stacey lands in Glasgow after Kade's bodyguard Barry rushed her onto a private jet from America. Hours earlier, Kade—blackmailed by the Sawyer crime family—kissed her goodbye and ordered his team to get her airborne at any cost. Barry tells her Kade has gone dark, untraceable, and the last time that happened he vanished for three months. She begs for a way to help, but Barry is under strict orders: protect Stacey, contact no one. When her stepbrother Kyle picks her up at arrivals, her nerves shatter—Chris, the stepbrother who has been sexually abusing her since she was fourteen, glares at her from the back seat. She is delivered from one captor's orbit straight into another's hands.

A hidden year of love, from camping tents to a Greek cave

Flashbacks reveal the relationship Stacey and Kade built in secret—sneaking into each other's sleeping bags on family camping trips, stealing kisses while his twin sister Luciella slept in the next tent. Kade, son of imprisoned psychopath Tobias Mitchell, feared his intensity was inherited sickness. Stacey quieted those fears. He surprised her with two Dobermann puppies named Milo and Hopper and designed matching tattoos with words too small to decipher. In Greece, drunk near a beach cave, Kade told Stacey he loved her—his first time saying it to anyone. She said it back. They recorded everything: karaoke, sunsets, tangled fingers. The secrecy that shielded them from Luciella's disapproval and Chris's violence built a universe only they could inhabit. For nearly a year, it was enough.

Drugged and sold to clients, Kade survives by remembering Stacey

In the present, Kade is a prisoner of Bernadette Sawyer, a corrupt police chief who forces him to kill, fight, and service her clients for money. She injects him with drugs that force arousal, sells him to wealthy buyers, and assaults him when no one else is paying. He killed a married couple she sold him to—skinned them alive, though he barely remembers it. When Bernadette straddles him in a hotel room, he dissociates, retreating to Stacey's voice, her scent, the feel of motorcycle rides together. He headbutts Bernadette's face mid-assault; she retaliates with another needle. His body betrays him constantly; his mind retreats to the only memories that keep him human. Meanwhile, Barry watches over Stacey back in Scotland.