This story was previously featured in Darkly Ever After: An Organized Crime Anthology. Traded to Him in the prequel to the Club V Series. I won her in a card game. Technically, I won her panties, but she came soon after, delivered to me in the dead of night. Dark hair, wide eyes but with that spark of defiancé I couldn’t resist. Sofia. She’s an enigma that I want to crack. I plan to keep her locked in my lair, but my boss throws down his own twisted rules. To keep her, I must make her want to stay. Taking her was easy. Owning her is my right. Breaking her down and making her truly mine will be the biggest gamble of my life. I’m on borrowed time. A week to make her love me, want me, need me. If I can’t crack Sofia’s heart, I can’t keep her. Those are the rules, those are the stakes, and they’ve never been so high.