Ash & Rust: Protocol Zero
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Ash & Rust: Protocol Zero

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Story Notes

Content Warning:This is a dark dystopian romance intended for mature audiences (18+). It contains graphic violence, psychological abuse, human experimentation, drug use, and dehumanization. There is a heavy focus on mental health, trauma, and recovery. The romance is a slow burn that eventually becomes explicit in later books. Reader discretion is advised. 

Summary

He gave her a name. She gave him a reason to live. Now, they'll burn the world down to keep each other. She was created to kill. He was born to make her feel. Seventeenth is Upper Eden’s perfect weapon—emotionless, lethal, and bound to a number. But when she’s sent to the gutters of the Kloaka, she collides with the one man she was programmed to destroy. Kael is the King of Trash. A smuggler. A monster. He should kill her. Instead, he gives her a name: Fury. He marks her skin with a spider. He teaches her what it means to bleed, to laugh, to burn. But the Preceptor wants his weapon back. And Kael is hiding a secret that could destroy them both. In a world where love is a crime, he taught her how to feel. Now, they’ll tear the city apart to keep each other.

Status
2d ago
Chapters
8
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Prologue

[Soundtrack: The Black Queen – The End Where We Start]

They told me feelings were a weakness. They told me love was a defect.

I was Seventeenth. A machine. A weapon. Until he called me Fury.

Tobacco. Pepper. Leather. Coriander. The scent of the King of Trash became my anchor in a world of ash.

"Whose are you, Princess?" He rasped.

"Yours," I whispered.

But they took him from me. They broke me. They tried to erase me.

"Come back to me," he begged. "Or I will burn the Glint - their perfect noble Sector - to the ground and take you home myself."

"I will," I promised. "I always do."

They called me a defect. A glitch. A lab rat.

But I am Fury. And I will burn their perfect world to ash to get him.

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