Tangled In Scales
For as long as he can remember, Ashwin Lockwood has been haunted by dreams—dark waters, silver eyes, a whisper of something lurking just beneath the surface. But dreams are just dreams… until his boyfriend, Dr. Hayden Hayes, vanishes without a trace.
Mount Haven is the kind of town where people don’t just disappear.
And yet, they are.
Then comes Ishaan Arthava—a stranger too mesmerizing to ignore who offers to help Ashwin search for Hayden. Ishaan always there, always watching. Too close. Too familiar. And when he says Ashwin’s name, it feels like a memory he can’t reach.
And then the bodies start appearing.
The deeper Ashwin is drawn into Ishaan’s orbit, the more his reality fractures. His world—his past, his future, his very identity—is slipping through his fingers like water.
Sweet, steady Hayden. Deadly, intoxicating Ishaan.
One is missing. One is inevitable.
One holds his heart. The other holds his fate.
But some bonds are too strong to break.
And Ashwin’s destiny with Ishaan? It was never a choice.
WARNING: 18+
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