This story is focusing on Captivity and Violence. If you prefer lighter stories, please choose different one. DANTE Three years undercover. Three years of forgetting where the cover ends and I begin. When my identity was burned and they dragged me to Viktor Morozov's warehouse, I was ready to die. I hoped for it, a little. But the Bratva's best interrogator doesn't want my secrets. He wants to know why I'm not screaming. VIKTOR I break men for a living. It's clinical. Efficient. Boring. Then they brought me the FBI agent who should have screamed by hour three. Instead, he looked at me with bruised eyes and said, "Is that all you've got? My father hit harder." Someone got there before me. Someone broke him so thoroughly that my pain is nothing. Now I don't want to break him. I want to be the one who puts him back together. He came in as a prisoner. He'll leave as mine—or not at all. ⚠️ violence, captivity, past abuse, morally gray hero, broken hero, pain to pleasure, high heat, HEA.