NIKOLAI
We built this empire with blood and brutality. We don't answer to anyone. We're untouchable. Or at least, we were-until someone dug deep enough to find the secrets that could burn it all to the ground. The price of their silence? A marriage that merges their dynasty with ours.
I don't want a wife-especially not Ani Sargsyan, the spoiled mafia princess with a sharp mouth and hatred for everything I am. I'll do whatever it takes to protect my family and what we've built, even if it means putting a ring on her finger... And a leash around her throat. She doesn't have to love me. She just has to learn how to obey-like a good little pet.
ANI
I was never supposed to be part of this deal, but my brother has other plans-trading me off like property for the sake of his ambition. I don't want this life. I definitely don't want him-Nikolai King. Cold-blooded, merciless, and determined to control me.
He thinks he can own me. Break me. Bend me to his rules. We clash at every turn-hate-laced kisses, brutal passion, and the kind of surrender that doesn't come without a fight-until I'm left in the wreckage... on my knees like a good girl for Daddy.
When hate turns to heat and enemies become lovers, it won't just be the city left in ashes.