Losing Control : His Madness, His Cure Chapter 298

✨YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF ME ✨

Ryan Ashbrook teaches literature like a man who knows he’s running out of time. Terminally ill and painfully poetic, he’s made peace with dying.....just not with doing it alone.

Michael Foster, a burned-out editor drifting through life, hasn’t felt moved by anything in years.... until he meets the captivating teacher who feels every moment too deeply.

Their lives collide in a brief, breathtaking love that was never meant to last, one that might save them both, even as it breaks them.

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Michael stands a few feet from me, sunlight catching in his hair like it was placed there on purpose. My classroom is too quiet, too warm and too full of him.

“Michael....” I warn, though I don’t know what I’m warning him of.

His eyes drag over my face, hungry.....curious, searching.

“You feel everything,” he says quietly. “I can tell.”

I swallow hard. The truth lands between us like a confession I never meant him to hear.

“And you,” I manage, barely, “feel nothing?”

A shadow crosses his expression. “Not lately.”

The distance between us suddenly feels like nothing more than a choice. One either of us could erase with a single breath.

I don’t move.

He doesn’t either.

But in the aching, suspended quiet, I realize I want him to. God help me....I want him to. He inhales slowly, like he’s bracing himself. “I shouldn’t tell you this,” he murmurs, “....but I dreamt of you last night.”

My pulse instantly kicks against my ribs. “Of me?”

His gaze flicks to my mouth, then back to my eyes. “Yeah. I dreamt you pushed me against a wall and kissed me like you couldn’t stop.”

My heartbeat stumbles, then pounds, loud enough I’m afraid he hears it.

“You were rough. Desperate. God, you were.....

❤️‍🔥CLAIMING RISK: TO BURN FOR YOU ❤️‍🔥

Dorian Risk has one rule: no witnesses. An assassin whose silence is his weapon, his name is a ghost story whispered among the damned. His latest target should have been another clean job.....until she appears. A doctor in the wrong place at the worst time.

He should’ve silenced her.

Instead, he shields her....

Dr. Catherine Ryker is days away from starting her dream residency at St. Haven Medical, her life finally aligning after years of sacrifice. Until the night she crosses paths with a killer and locks eyes with him. She escapes death, but not danger. Because Dorian Risk isn’t the only one hunting her anymore.

When a second wave of assassins descends, Dorian does the unthinkable...he protects and runs with her. Now they’re both caught in a deadly chase across the country, each mile blurring the line between protection and obsession.

She’s light in his darkness, he’s danger she can’t resist. Every stolen breath between them burns hotter, every touch a promise they can’t afford to keep.

✨She was born to save lives.

He was built to take them.

Now he’s found something worth protecting. And he’ll kill the world before he lets it go.✨

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His hand hits the wall beside my head and the sound cracks through the air. My breath catches as he leans in, the heat of his body swallowing the space between us.

“And where do you think you’re running off to?”

His voice is smooth and cruelly calm. My pulse is a drumbeat against my throat. “Get the hell out of my way,” I hiss, even though I know he won’t....he never does.

He tilts his head, eyes dark and flaming with something. “That’s not how this works.”

“You’re a heartless killer,” I bite out, the words trembling against my tongue. “If you touch me again, I’ll scream.”

He exhales a quiet laugh, the kind that crawls down my spine and steals all sense. His lips ghost the air between us.

“Then scream,” he taunts, voice deep enough to drown in. “Show me how loud you can be when it’s me you’re fighting.”