They paid me half a million dollars to kill her before Christmas. I've decided to keep her instead.
Miloš
I was paid to kill her on December 23rd.I sat in her brownstone for three hours waiting for her to come home and I watched her through the window for two weeks before that, and somewhere between the bodega on 74th and the way she hums while she works, I decided the man who hired me was going to die instead.
She doesn't know that yet.
She thinks I'm here to save her. She thinks I'm the only thing standing between her and the bullet her fiancé already paid for. She's not wrong. But she also has no idea what it costs to be saved by someone like me—and she's going to pay every cent of it before I let her walk down that aisle on New Year's Eve.
I'm going to keep her alive.
I'm going to make her mine.
And when she finally figures out which hand was holding the gun, it'll already be too late to take back what she let me have.
Some carols ring silver. Some ring like a death knell.This Christmas, both will sound the same.
Tropes: captive heroine · obsessive morally black MMC · arranged marriage · touch her and die · forced proximity · age gap · virgin FMC · CNC · slow-burn corruption · standalone
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Miloš
I was paid to kill her on December 23rd.I sat in her brownstone for three hours waiting for her to come home and I watched her through the window for two weeks before that, and somewhere between the bodega on 74th and the way she hums while she works, I decided the man who hired me was going to die instead.
She doesn't know that yet.
She thinks I'm here to save her. She thinks I'm the only thing standing between her and the bullet her fiancé already paid for. She's not wrong. But she also has no idea what it costs to be saved by someone like me—and she's going to pay every cent of it before I let her walk down that aisle on New Year's Eve.
I'm going to keep her alive.
I'm going to make her mine.
And when she finally figures out which hand was holding the gun, it'll already be too late to take back what she let me have.
Some carols ring silver. Some ring like a death knell.This Christmas, both will sound the same.
Tropes: captive heroine · obsessive morally black MMC · arranged marriage · touch her and die · forced proximity · age gap · virgin FMC · CNC · slow-burn corruption · standalone
Genre: Romantic Suspense