Some people wear their pain on their sleeves. Others ink it into their skin. 

FL keeps her scars hidden beneath tattoos and quiet smiles. A gifted artist with a painful past, she’s mastered the art of staying invisible—until ML walks into her shop. Covered in ink and cloaked in danger, he’s everything she’s spent years avoiding... and the only man whose silence cuts deeper than her own.

ML doesn’t believe in second chances. As a top enforcer for one of the city’s most feared gangs, he’s earned his reputation through blood and brutality. But FL sees the man underneath the muscle—the broken boy behind the monster.

In a life where everyone carries pain, their connection might be the only thing real—but it could also be the most dangerous.

Because not all wounds bleed. And not every mark fades.