The head of the Irish mafia killed my family. Then made me his wife. Patrick Mahoney erased my bloodline in one brutal night. His answer to my father’s betrayal? Total annihilation. But he missed one. Me. Instead of finishing the job, he’s claimed me—bound me to him with a ring instead of a bullet. Now I’m trapped in a marriage forged in blood and vengeance with my family’s executioner. For him, it’s strategy, a twisted merger of violence and power. For me, it’s survival. But grief hasn’t made me meek—it’s made me dangerous. I fight him at every turn—his cruelty with defiancé, his dominance with rebellion. Yet the more time we spend together, the more our mutual hatred warps into something far more terrifying. Because what started with murder and revenge… Might just end in love.