I saved my family’s enemy. And now he owns the secret that can ruin me.
Paramedics wheel in a man with three bullets in him, and I recognize Lev Morozov instantly.
The enemy pakhan’s son. The one I should to let bleed out.
Instead, I falsify his name, lock down his room, and keep the police out.
Now his life is in my hands… and my life is in his silence.
He looks at me like he’s been waiting years for this moment, like I’m not a doctor—I’m a claim.
We start with stolen minutes and dangerous truths we don’t say out loud.
Then he drags me into a war I swore I’d never touch… and into hiding under my cousin’s roof.
I tell myself I can quit him.
Right up until I learn the one secret he kept that can destroy me… and the baby I never meant to make with him.
Paramedics wheel in a man with three bullets in him, and I recognize Lev Morozov instantly.
The enemy pakhan’s son. The one I should to let bleed out.
Instead, I falsify his name, lock down his room, and keep the police out.
Now his life is in my hands… and my life is in his silence.
He looks at me like he’s been waiting years for this moment, like I’m not a doctor—I’m a claim.
We start with stolen minutes and dangerous truths we don’t say out loud.
Then he drags me into a war I swore I’d never touch… and into hiding under my cousin’s roof.
I tell myself I can quit him.
Right up until I learn the one secret he kept that can destroy me… and the baby I never meant to make with him.