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Simon Riley doesn’t believe in love. He believes in loyalty, violence, and eliminating threats before they become problems. Then he meets you. A pretty, stubborn bartender who makes the mistake of thanking him after he intervenes with a troublesome customer. One encounter turns into repeated visits, lingering stares, and an unsettling interest Simon has no intention of explaining. At first, you think he’s simply protective. The quiet soldier in the skull mask who makes sure you get home safely. Until strange things start happening. Men who bother you disappear. Your ex suddenly wants nothing to do with you. Someone knows things about your life you’ve never told another soul. And Simon always seems to be there. What begins as attraction slowly becomes something darker, tangled in military secrets, dangerous jealousy, and a past Simon has spent years burying. He’s possessive, emotionally unavailable, and frighteningly comfortable with violence. Yet behind closed doors, the same hands capable of terrible things can touch you with devastating tenderness. But when someone from Simon’s past reveals that your meeting might not have been accidental, you’re forced to question everything. Because Simon Riley isn’t the kind of man who falls in love. He’s the kind who becomes obsessed. And some ghosts don’t haunt houses. They haunt people.