“Okay, I get it now. I finally get the bratva romance obsession. Your brother-in-law is 90% scowl and 10% silent daddy energy and it’s wrecking my brain.” “I want him to ruin me on every surface of this hospital and then brood about it after.” It was supposed to be a private text to my best friend. A dirty little confession about her brother-in-law—the terrifyingly hot, scarred man with dead eyes and a body built to sin. It went to him instead. Andrej Ivanov. Second-born son of Ivanov Bratva. He didn’t say a word. He just started watching me. Closely. Possessively. Like I was already his. I didn’t know my best friend was a mafia princess. I didn’t know Andrej’s family was the same one that destroyed mine. I didn’t know any of it... until the day I became a target. Now Andrej is the only one who can keep me alive. He takes me to Russia. Moves me into his fortress. And tells me the only way to protect me—under Bratva law—is to marry him. He says it’s just for safety. But his touch doesn’t feel safe. His mouth doesn’t taste like a lie. And the fire between us doesn’t care that I’m supposed to hate him. Because I already let him claim my body. And I’m already carrying his child. Author's Andrej and Cartier's A bookish heroine and A morally gray antihero ~ A scorching Standalone dark romance that will leave you breathless