It starts as just a small itch on the toe. A little bump, nothing serious. But what happens next is a slow, silent horror that most of the world never sees. A microscopic parasite burrows deep into the skin, feeds on blood, lays hundreds of eggs, and multiplies under the flesh. Day by day, the pain increases—burning, swelling, cracking. The skin turns dark and infected. The nails begin to rot and fall off. Every step becomes torture. The victim can no longer walk, can no longer sleep, only tremb

Evelyn Walters' bright future was destroyed over just one shot of whiskey, or at least that's how much whiskey she remembered drinking. She never imagined her world would fall apart after a single night with her father's greatest enemy, Axel Knight, the notorious business tycoon and infamous playboy. Almost every weekend, his name trended in the gossip columns, always photographed with some stunning, barely-dressed woman clinging to his arm. And now... That dangerously handsome man lay beside he