Pygmalion's Silence
When love becomes a disease, survival demands surrender.
After a lifetime of heartbreak and manipulation, Iris Monroe wants to forget. Desperate for peace, she volunteers for an untested treatment at Pygmalion Labs, a secret facility where emotion is studied like an infection. Its founder, Dr. Cassian Cross, promises a cure for love through his newest experiment, The Echo Link, a neural tether that connects two minds and erases attachment through shared pain.
Inside the isolation chamber, Iris loses sight, sound, and control. Then comes the voice. Deep, patient, and intimate. It guides her through her worst memories, teaching her to face what she buried. She believes the voice belongs to another patient, unaware that Cassian has broken every ethical rule to link himself to her.
What began as research becomes an obsession. Through the connection, Cassian feels everything she feels, every heartbeat, every trembling breath. Iris is no longer a subject; she is his creation. And as the link strengthens, their emotions fuse until neither knows where one ends and the other begins.
Outside the lab, power surges and alarms echo through the sterile halls. Inside, their connection becomes a psychological survival game: Iris fighting to keep her mind intact, Cassian fighting to claim it.
When the experiment spirals out of control, Iris must choose between destroying the man who has made her heart his home or staying tethered to him forever within the silence he designed.
Because in Pygmalion’s Silence, love does not set you free; it traps you in the most beautiful cage of all.