Y/N was never supposed to be anything more than an obligation. A human bride, chosen by his father, bound to a marriage Felix wanted no part of. But the moment she stepped into his world, something inside him awakened that he neither understood nor could suppress. An inexplicable connection. An insatiable longing. An obsession that burrowed beneath his skin and threatened to unravel everything he had spent centuries becoming. Desperate to escape the vulnerability she brings, Felix turns cold, cruel, and distant. Yet every stolen glance, every quiet rejection, every reminder that she could never love him only deepens his fixation. He wants her affection, her devotion, her heart—things he cannot command, no matter how fiercely he tries. And when desperation begins to eclipse reason, Felix Maxwell must confront the terrifying reality that the one person capable of destroying him is the very woman he cannot bear to lose.