Childhood traumas have plagued Nirvana for years—the abuse from his father, the loss of his mother. Easier to drown it in booze and the touch of strangers than to face what happened.
It’s the opposite of what he tells his clients to do, and he knows it’s not making anything better, but accepting what happened terrifies him almost as much as what he’d endured.
Even after his father’s death, Nirvana struggles to come to terms with it.
Even those behind the scenes can harbor just as much guilt.
In his search for an identity outside of his family’s wealth and nobility, Drystan instead finds himself lured into the charm and intrigue of These Wicked Things—and eventually into the bed—and heart—of Leith Gallows.
