Summary

Fake sheets. Real blood. A marriage rewritten in smoke. He wears a white coat by day and a crown of sins by night. Malin patches bullet holes and makes them, the surgeon-assassin of a city ruled by corrupt families. She was the decoy bride, virgin on paper, ghost in bed, until the basement lights came on and the lie became a life. Ilina, the wrong sister in the right dress, a med student with steady hands and a fracture line down her spine. Between club balconies and operating rooms, they torch legacies, and crack safes hiding master keys and worse secrets. This is a love story with a pulse‑ox alarm: breath play, knife’s‑edge consent, control questions, white‑noise rooms. He’ll teach her to live with monsters. She’ll make him feel like one. If the med bay as foreplay and loyalty paid in bodies is your kind of dark romance, welcome to the Devil’s Playground.

Genre: Romance/Erotica

Author: Emery Ashes

Status: Complete

Chapters: 34

Rating: 5.0 6 reviews

Age Rating: 18+

Managing Expectations and Warnings

Hi.

I’ve been away for a while. I’ve been writing, not posting, 272,309 words are sitting in drafts. Maybe they’ll see daylight 🌚🌝. This story is part of a standalone series with two written books so far, chronologically it’s book two, but I’m posting it first because it’s the most ready and truly independent. Also, I wanted to join a two‑week writing challenge.

Schedule

• I’ll post 1–2 chapters per day for the next two weeks

• The story will be completed by the end of the challenge 57k words total

• No cliffhanger abandonment, but yes, I hope you’ll want more♥️

Craft note

• I’ve been accused of rushing my endings (fair), so with this one I challenged myself to extend it an itty bit and land it clean 🛬

Language note

• English isn’t my first or second language, if grammar or flow trips you up, please leave comments and I’ll revise 📝

• Be honest, constructive, not cruel

Community standard

• Kink‑shaming comments will be reported/deleted

• If this isn’t for you, that’s your cue to bail early

• My comments are a safe place for readers who share these kinks ❤️‍🩹

What this is

• For the freaks into medfet, a specific corner of it

• Lots of particulars, some unfamiliar even to me, this isn’t my “usual”

• Criminals front and center, tropes poked, others broken in unconventional ways

• Tone: clinical heat, morally gray, zero purple prose

Content guidance

• Adults (18+) Contains: sexual content with BDSM elements, medical procedures, violence, torture/interrogation, off-page human trafficking, suicide mention, coercion themes, blood

• Polyamory, multiple partners, scenes with more than two people. (Not for everyone and that’s okay)

House rules

• No glamorizing abuse; characters make choices and pay for them

• Medical details aim for realism; I’ll err on plausibility over melodrama

• Characters are morally gray; institutions are compromised; criminals often lead

• This isn't a guide on kink or this specific one (it's fiction)

Dedication

To Vikings, I’m not writing this one for you, but it wouldn’t have happened without you (I do owe you a book, I know, one day), to M’s childhood best friend, may he never see this, and to the cow that chased me in the middle of fucking nowhere on a nature hike last week.

Still here? 👀

Enjoy the shit-show

Love,

Emery✨