Depraved Devotion

My patient is stalking me. And he’s a psychopath. I’ve spent my life studying darkness—mapping the twisted corners of the human mind, cataloguing the monsters that hide behind ordinary faces. But nothing prepares me for him. Ghost. A brilliant, feral, breathtakingly beautiful serial killer who thrives on chaos. A man whose crimes have spawned a cult of admirers…and whose obsession has settled on me. When he turns himself in and demands to speak only to me, I sit across the glass from the monster everyone fears. But the real danger is the one he awakens inside me—the part I’ve buried, the part that recognizes something in him I shouldn’t understand. His voice crawls under my skin. His gaze strips me bare. I tell myself the shivers are fear, nothing more. But alone in the dark, I know better. The boundary between doctor and patient fractures. The air between us tightens. And soon I’m forced to face the truth I’ve spent years avoiding: Ghost sees the haunted places I refuse to look at. He wants to unlock them. He wants to claim me. And to him, the price of uncovering my past is simple— Me. All of me.