She faints in a grocery store—but the mafia boss who catches her notices hidden bruises and uncovers a truth that changes everything

smiled.

Allara should have been frightened of him.

Sometimes she was.

But it was a different kind of fear from the one Bram had planted in her. Bram’s anger filled rooms like gas — invisible until it caught. Nikolai’s danger was clean, named, and contained. He never pretended to be harmless.

That honesty became the first stone in the foundation of her continue reading …