With Roan out of the picture, I've taken Croatia and eastern Europe. Now it's time I take Italy as well. I just need to get rid of the Skull King. What better way to accomplish that than by using his daughter against him—who happens to live right here in Paris. But my problem goes south the second I lay eyes on her. She's the perfect solution to all my troubles. All I have to do is put a knife to her throat to get what I want. The Skull King will cave. Italy will be mine. But that's the last thing I want to do. What I really want to do is make her mine. Who says I can't have both? At least until she finds out the truth...

I sacrificed my relationship with Bartholomew to tell my father the truth—and he shot me. Bartholomew sacrificed everything to save me—while my father wouldn’t have hesitated to kill me if he didn’t get what he wanted. I made the wrong choice—lost the man that actually cared for me—and I can’t live with the consequences. I beg Bartholomew for another chance, but those pleas fall on deaf ears. After I made him look weak in front of his own men, there’s no way he could ever give me another chance. He should be able to trust his woman, his ride-or-die, the way he trusts his men. You only appreciate something when it’s gone—and now I realize I’ve lost the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Now that I have nothing left to lose, I decide to take down my father on my own. I coerce Victor into helping me, since he owes me, and I know the best way to get my father to drop his guard is by convincing him I have no ties to Bartholomew—by becoming engaged to Victor. Word travels fast, even all the way to Paris, and when I walk into my apartment I feel the seething hostility from my old lover before I see him. Bartholomew’s stare is deadly, his jealousy like poison in the air. “Looks like we have a lot to catch up on, sweetheart.” Pick up the next installment of this dark romance bestseller 2023 now by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page. This forbidden dark romance is also available in Kindle Unlimited!