Found by K.T. Vey

He did everything to keep her, at the risk of revealing the evil dormant within him.

Taken hostage by an academy for "troubled teens", Kaden Williams spent his youth under watchful eyes. For years, he was told how to stand, how to dress, how to eat, sleep, and think. Where there's no winning, there's no losing, and there comes a point in a person's life when you've been beaten for so long, you have nothing left to fear.

That's when you become truly dangerous.

From the moment of his release, Kade has had to prove his own worth in this world outside of the shadow of his father's reputation and abusive family. Right when he felt beyond redemption, Lainey came barreling into his life with a heaping dose of delusional optimism to his paranoid nihilism. Now, Kade is afraid of losing everything he's worked for and the only love he's ever known when a demon from his past returns to drag him back to the cell where it all began.

And she isn't alone.

If Kade can't sustain this new life – this love he feels wholly undeserving of – then perhaps he's sicker than his captors could have imagined.