Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

  1. Tags
    Summary

    Elite partners Cal and Emily are prisoners in a facility that demands their souls. When a brutal new protocol begins turning their unshakeable trust into paranoia and intimacy into physical agony, they are forced into a deadly psychological war where the only thing more dangerous than their captors is their connection to each other.

    Cal Isaac and Emily Byrne are the Bureau’s most lethal partners. They are also the only thing keeping each other alive. Now, stripped of their names and bound by invisible chains, they are prisoners in a facility that demands absolute emptiness.
    Their captor seeks the perfect soldier: cold, compliant, and solitary. But between Cal and Emily lies a connection that defies the data—a stubborn, dangerous spark that refuses to be extinguished.
    To fix the flaw, the system has begun to turn. Through a labyrinth of psychological warfare and manipulated reality, the program is rewriting their instincts, turning their trust into paranoia and their intimacy into a trigger for pain.
    As the lines between ally and enemy blur, they face a terrifying question: How much of your soul can you hollow out to survive, before there is nothing left to save?

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    126,160
    Chapters:
    42/42
    Kudos:
    5
    Hits:
    361