He collects debts. She reads damage. Neither of them saw this coming.
They delivered me to the Morozov bank like a parcel — collateral for my father’s eleven million and the day he vanished. I was leverage. A thing to be kept quiet in a gallery until the debt cleared or the war did.
Lev Morozov is the most controlled man in Chicago. Pakhan of a Bratva empire run out of a converted vault, he doesn’t take what he wants at gunpoint. He negotiates. He hands me a contract and a single word that stops his whole world — and then he does the one thing no one in my life ever has.
He keeps his promises.
I should have run. Instead I signed. I let him teach me what it is to set down the weight I’ve carried alone my whole life. I let myself believe in a floor that finally held.
Then I found the panel on his wall with my family’s name on the back — and learned the debt runs the other way. That everything I was built on is a Morozov crime. That he knew. And that a man can keep every promise he makes and still choose which truths to let you need.
He swore he’d never handle me for my own good.
He’s about to break that promise in front of two armies, in an open square, with my name cold in his mouth — and I won’t understand what it costs us both until it’s far too late to stop it.
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THE COLLAR is Book One of Sanctum: The Morozov Bratva — a dark, obsessive, all-the-way-down BDSM Bratva romance with a fiercely competent heroine, a dominant hero who falls first and hardest, a guaranteed happily-ever-after, and enough heat to fog the vault door. Five brothers. Five books. One family with a grave no one will name.
They delivered me to the Morozov bank like a parcel — collateral for my father’s eleven million and the day he vanished. I was leverage. A thing to be kept quiet in a gallery until the debt cleared or the war did.
Lev Morozov is the most controlled man in Chicago. Pakhan of a Bratva empire run out of a converted vault, he doesn’t take what he wants at gunpoint. He negotiates. He hands me a contract and a single word that stops his whole world — and then he does the one thing no one in my life ever has.
He keeps his promises.
I should have run. Instead I signed. I let him teach me what it is to set down the weight I’ve carried alone my whole life. I let myself believe in a floor that finally held.
Then I found the panel on his wall with my family’s name on the back — and learned the debt runs the other way. That everything I was built on is a Morozov crime. That he knew. And that a man can keep every promise he makes and still choose which truths to let you need.
He swore he’d never handle me for my own good.
He’s about to break that promise in front of two armies, in an open square, with my name cold in his mouth — and I won’t understand what it costs us both until it’s far too late to stop it.
❧
THE COLLAR is Book One of Sanctum: The Morozov Bratva — a dark, obsessive, all-the-way-down BDSM Bratva romance with a fiercely competent heroine, a dominant hero who falls first and hardest, a guaranteed happily-ever-after, and enough heat to fog the vault door. Five brothers. Five books. One family with a grave no one will name.
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