Neon Blood: The Forbidden Bond

Kael’s heart is failing when Sloane presses her hand to his and forces a forbidden consciousness link into his dying body. The woman he was ordered to kill becomes the only reason he can breathe—and the target Victor wants dissected. Every wound he feels tears through her, and every secret he hides echoes inside her mind. Kael needs her access to the empire that erased him; Sloane needs his lethal hands to seize the power that owns her. But as their bond deepens, Kael discovers she isn’t merely a runaway heiress—she’s the living vessel of a forbidden super-AI. Then Victor triggers Kael’s kill switch: sever the link by killing Sloane, or keep her alive and let the tyrant fuse their minds into immortality?