I changed one word to save a man's life. The only person who heard me was the man who now owns mine.
Wren Halliday interprets for the London courts. She is very good at being no one — the voice in the corner who renders other people's worst hours and leaves no mark on the room. Then a frightened witness says a woman's name in Russian, and Wren, knowing that name will get him killed, turns it into something harmless. One small lie. It costs nothing.
Except one man in the gallery heard it. And Damir Orlov does not let a debt go unpaid.
He takes her because she is a liability. He keeps her because she is the only person alive who has ever lied to him in his own language — and he intends to find out why, one rule at a time. No Russian unless he permits it. Every question answered. Every silence earned. She has one word that is hers alone, and he will honour it every time she uses it — but everything else, he decides.
What Wren doesn't know is that the word she erased is a name he hasn't spoken in twenty-seven years. That her dead grandmother once cleaned the floors of the house he keeps her in. And that the quiet, exacting man learning her body like a language is the last thing standing between her and the person who buried that name under a warehouse floor.
She was taken to be broken open. She was never told she'd be the one thing he refused to bury.
SAY NOTHING is Book One of The Orlov Silence — a four-book London Bratva dark romance told as one continuous story.
Reader note: explicit content, dominance and submission with safeword and aftercare shown on the page, and dark themes including references to violence. Intended for readers 18+.
Wren Halliday interprets for the London courts. She is very good at being no one — the voice in the corner who renders other people's worst hours and leaves no mark on the room. Then a frightened witness says a woman's name in Russian, and Wren, knowing that name will get him killed, turns it into something harmless. One small lie. It costs nothing.
Except one man in the gallery heard it. And Damir Orlov does not let a debt go unpaid.
He takes her because she is a liability. He keeps her because she is the only person alive who has ever lied to him in his own language — and he intends to find out why, one rule at a time. No Russian unless he permits it. Every question answered. Every silence earned. She has one word that is hers alone, and he will honour it every time she uses it — but everything else, he decides.
What Wren doesn't know is that the word she erased is a name he hasn't spoken in twenty-seven years. That her dead grandmother once cleaned the floors of the house he keeps her in. And that the quiet, exacting man learning her body like a language is the last thing standing between her and the person who buried that name under a warehouse floor.
She was taken to be broken open. She was never told she'd be the one thing he refused to bury.
SAY NOTHING is Book One of The Orlov Silence — a four-book London Bratva dark romance told as one continuous story.
Reader note: explicit content, dominance and submission with safeword and aftercare shown on the page, and dark themes including references to violence. Intended for readers 18+.
Used availability for Danielle Kent's Say Nothing