Owned

He didn't take her. He bought her. And he said so, plainly, the first time she looked him in the eye.

She knows the name of the network that moved her. She knows the city she was brought to. She knows the floor she's on - thirty-two, in a tower that belongs to a man named Damien Blackstone - because she has been counting everything since the moment she stopped being a person and became a transaction.

She didn't expect him to tell her the truth.

Damien Blackstone is the middle brother - not the coldest, not the most powerful, but by every measure the most dangerous. He does not manage his edges for anyone's comfort. He looks at everything directly, without apology. He sat down in the locked room where they put her and he said, without hesitation: I bought you.

She said: Like I was a-

He said: Yes.

He did not soften it. He did not explain it away. And in a world that has offered her nothing but shadows and misdirection, that honesty is the most disorienting thing she has encountered yet.

She is not free. She knows that. Floor 32 of Blackstone Tower is still a cage, no matter how large the windows are or how carefully he avoids the word. But Damien Blackstone is not what she expected captivity to look like. He is volatile, uncontrolled, and completely without the pretence of goodness - and he is the only person in this world who has never once lied to her face.

Ownership and consent. Not a simple line. Not a clean answer.

A negotiation between two people caught inside systems neither of them designed.

OWNED is a full-length dark romance novel featuring a morally grey possessive hero, dark captivity themes, a bought/sold storyline, and an open-door romance. This book contains dark content including purchase, captivity, and power imbalance. Intended for readers 18+ who choose this content.

The Blackstone Series:
Book One: Claimed
Book Two: Kept
Book Three: Broken
Book Four: Ruined
Book Five: Owned
Book Six: Punished
Book Seven: Bound
Book Eight: Hunted