Lovers of political thriller and a crazy kind of romance this is for you. 


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It all began twenty-nine years ago. The government of Dilrik launched a secret project to breed and raise children with superhuman abilities, designed to become the nation’s best tool in the future. But one dire mistake brought the project crashing down, and it was forcibly shut down, its remnants buried.

Years later, on the eve of war, a revered doctor and a desperate prince cross paths as strangers and had one wild night together, an accident neither intended to happen. 

They were supposed to never see each other again. But days later, he appears at her door, using their night together as leverage to demand the one thing no one else can give him: a cure for his madness.

Now she’s trapped. She can't refuse and speaking a word of it would mean execution for treason despite the  revered status she held. She became his physician, tending to him in secret with fear of being discovered.

Yet somewhere between the fear something shifts. He stops simply being the sick prince and she stops to be merely the miracle doctor. Two people on opposite sides of a war find themselves standing on the edge of a feeling that could destroy them both.

But can a feeling like this survive?

And deep beneath their dangerous emotions lies another question, one that’s been waiting twenty-nine years for an answer: what really happened to the children from the project?

The luxury suite he had occupied in Dilrik had long stopped looking like a normal hotel room and had begun resembling the control center of a very bored villain; the place was filled with several pieces of equipment for hacking, and beside them sat half-finished snacks, open files, and a chessboard that had remained untouched for two days because Leon kept getting distracted by opportunities to ruin people's lives.


The floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the glittering skyline of Dilrik. The city looked peaceful from up here, so calm and civilized. 


Underneath that polished surface, fear, greed, lust, desperation, and secrets crawled everywhere like insects beneath a beautiful carpet.


Raj, his secretary, entered, tablet in hand; he was wearing glasses today.


Leon was lounging lazily across the sofa in a brown bathing robe, one arm hanging over the edge while he absentmindedly spun a remote between his fingers.


Chapter 24 - Second stage.