He kept the ashes of their love just to feel the burn. (Your skin remembers my touch better than your mind remembers your lies.) (I want you to look at me while I ruin you. I want to be the last thing you see before your pride dies.) "Open your damn eyes, Ember," he rasped, the command vibrating through the sliver of space between their lips. He wanted more than her body; he wanted the surrender of her soul. "I want to see. I want to look into your eyes and see if I still give you pleasure-if I satisfy those needs of yours properly, or if you've forgotten the taste of me entirely." "I spent five years building a cage for the only person who was actually standing in the line of fire for me." Jungkook wants to ruin her. He wants to see her break the way he did. He wants to use his power to show her that he is no longer the boy she abandoned. But as they collide in a storm of hatred and suppressed desire, the line between revenge and obsession begins to blur. He wants her to pay for every second of his agony. He wants her stripped of her secrets and her dignity. In the architecture of their love, every brick is a lie, and every shadow has a price. "I've spent a thousand nights hating you, and ten thousand more wishing I didn't."