Dimitri Sokolov should be dead.
His father. His brothers. Everyone who carried his name—gone. He's the last Sokolov standing, a PhD candidate who hid in university libraries while his family's empire burned.
Now he has two things the Baranovs want: $340 million in offshore accounts and contacts it took decades to build.
He walks into Andrei Baranov's office with an offer. Everything—in exchange for protection for the innocent staff who'll be hunted otherwise.
Andrei accepts. Then adds a condition.
You stay. With me. Until I decide otherwise.
At forty, Andrei has spent twenty years building an empire while being overlooked by his own family. He recognizes the same wound in Dimitri immediately—the undervalued son, the one never trusted with real power.
He wants to be the first person who sees Dimitri clearly.
What starts as leverage becomes something Andrei can't justify and Dimitri can't resist. The man who destroyed his family is the first one who's ever listened. But when old loyalties come calling with promises of vengeance, Dimitri will have to choose what he's really become.
Claimed by the Bratva is a high-heat MM mafia romance featuring a 40/25 age gap, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a pakhan who discovers some acquisitions can't stay transactional. Standalone with HEA.
Genre: Gay Romance
His father. His brothers. Everyone who carried his name—gone. He's the last Sokolov standing, a PhD candidate who hid in university libraries while his family's empire burned.
Now he has two things the Baranovs want: $340 million in offshore accounts and contacts it took decades to build.
He walks into Andrei Baranov's office with an offer. Everything—in exchange for protection for the innocent staff who'll be hunted otherwise.
Andrei accepts. Then adds a condition.
You stay. With me. Until I decide otherwise.
At forty, Andrei has spent twenty years building an empire while being overlooked by his own family. He recognizes the same wound in Dimitri immediately—the undervalued son, the one never trusted with real power.
He wants to be the first person who sees Dimitri clearly.
What starts as leverage becomes something Andrei can't justify and Dimitri can't resist. The man who destroyed his family is the first one who's ever listened. But when old loyalties come calling with promises of vengeance, Dimitri will have to choose what he's really become.
Claimed by the Bratva is a high-heat MM mafia romance featuring a 40/25 age gap, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a pakhan who discovers some acquisitions can't stay transactional. Standalone with HEA.
Genre: Gay Romance
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