Layla never intended to return to his world. But when her daughter’s life depended on a bone marrow transplant, she had no choice.

To save her seriously ill daughter, single mother Layla has no choice but to seek help from the city’s powerful and enigmatic ruler, Zaley Raines—the only compatible bone marrow donor. Cold, dangerous, and commanding, he is drawn to Layla by a strange sense of familiarity. However, she dares not reveal the truth: Zaley is actually her long-lost first love, Leon, and the biological father of her child, though he no longer remembers her. Haunted by past trauma and misunderstandings, Layla has kept her distance, but Zaley’s instincts pull him irresistibly closer. When the truth of their connection comes to light, he begins unraveling the fragments of his tampered memories, determined to reclaim the woman he once loved and the daughter they never knew. Bound by fate and tangled in secrets, Layla finds herself falling once again for the man who once promised to rescue her from despair. But this time, Zaley wants more than just her heart—he wants her to remain in his world forever. As enemies close in and hidden truths emerge, they become each other’s salvation in a reunion written by destiny.

And when he finally remembers? 
He won’t beg. He won’t fall. He’ll rise.
To reclaim her.
To destroy those who wronged her.
To conquer every part of the woman he once forgot how to love.

The Conqueror

**THE DAY BEFORE - YLUMIA**
**LAYLA**
Layla sat in the spare room, barefoot on the ladder, her fingertips stained with pastel shades of sky blue and dusty rose. The mural she was working on stretched across the wall like a dream in progress—soft clouds, dandelions in mid-flight, and a fox curled ben...

PROLOGUE

1. THE DEVIL

2. IN HIS CAGE

3. HATE

4. HIS ATTENTION 

5. GOLDEN EGG

6. THAT HOUSE

7. HER SMELL

8. THE LILLY

9. THE DEAL

10. KISS IT BETTER

11. GHOST OF PAST

12. REMEMBER ME

13. NOT YOUR LEON

14. LUXURY OF REVENGE

15. THE VISTOR

16. DO YOU KNOW ME?

17. THE L FAMILY 

18. STALKERS-1

19. STALKERS-2

20. TERMS & CONDITIONS

21. THE STORM

22. MY GIRLS

23. A DATE

24. THE ENCOUNTER

25. YOU ARE ENOUGH

26. BE MY QUEEN

27. BIRTH OF ZALEY

28. AT FIFTEEN-1

29. AT FIFTEEN-2

30. THE WEDDING

31. HIS NAME

32. STORM IN STILLNESS

33. FLASHES

34. FOR THE FIRST TIME

35. HIS ABSENCE

36. HER ABSENCE

37. THE KISS

38. I WANT YOU

39. IN HER HOUSE

40. THE REBOUND

41. MORE THAN FRIENDS

42. HATE

43. Incomplete Puzzles

44. YOUR FIANCE

45. HIS AND ONLY HIS

46. THE SWEET SIXTEEN

47. BIRTHDAY GIRL

48. MY LIGHT

49. EMOTIONS

50. STAY

51. TOO LATE

52. ANOTHER MAN

53. BE THE BEST

54. FEELINGS

55. VIXEN

56. DESIRE

57. A NOBODY?

58. FATHER

59. HIS DAUGHTER

60. COMPLICATED

61. STOLEN TOUCHES

62. SAME PERSON

63. SNIPPETS

64. MINE

65. PARTING GIFT

66. HER PAIN

67. HOME

68. LONG NIGHT

69. TIES

70. FEAR

71. DREAM

72. TO SLEEP

73. THE KETCHUP

74. BEAUTIFUL SOUL

75. LUST?

76. TEN TIMES MORE

77. APPOINTMENT WITH THE FOOD

78. THE ATTACK

79. MOVING IN

80. AN ILLUSION

81. THE APARTMENT

82. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

83. PIZZA AFTER SEX

84. PERMANENT INK

85. ALL SHE KNOWS

86. THE BIKE AND THE KEY

87. FEARLESS AND SHIRTLESS

88. NAKEY - NAKEY

89. THE SAME BUILDING

90. THE TRIBE

91. A DUFORT'S FUNERAL

92. SCRAMBLED EGGS

93. THE MESS

94. THE CAKE

95. Forever, He Said

96. BOTH OF THEM

97. BLUE ROSES

98. WHERE THE STORM CAN'T REACH HER

99. ANGEL

187. NEEDLES