Intricate; entangled or involved, complex, complicated, hard to understand, work or make. E.g. an inticate maze. 

A maze, which he was. She was lost in his garden full of thorns when all she saw were roses. Roses which were inexistent in his own game. A game in which no one but her was being played. 

She was a fish in his personal aquarium the moment she took that bait, he had her trapped. And she still is trapped. Will she ever escape? Would she be able to?