He left me ten years ago without a word.
Now Viktor Volkov is standing in my restaurant at closing time, looking like a decade of darkness made flesh, asking to work off a debt I never agreed to.
I built Petrova's from nothing. James Beard nomination. Michelin recognition. My kitchen, my rules, my empire. I didn't wait for him. I didn't pine. I built.
And now he wants to peel potatoes in my prep station like that fixes anything.
I should throw him out. I did throw him out.
He came back.
So I put him to work. Punishment labour. The worst jobs. The longest hours. If he wants to pay off ten years of silence, he can start with the onions.
But Viktor Volkov in my kitchen is something I wasn't prepared for. The way he moves through the stations. The way he takes orders. The way his hands — hands that have done terrible things — plate food like it's a prayer.
He doesn't deserve my forgiveness. He definitely doesn't deserve my heart.
But when Sokolov's men photograph my restaurant and run my financials, Viktor becomes the only man standing between my empire and the people who want to burn it down.
And the debt between us has nothing to do with money.
Tempted by the Bratva is Book 5 in the Boston Bratva Series. It features a scarred shadow operative hero, a fierce chef heroine, a second chance romance with a slow-burn redemption arc, and a guaranteed HEA. This is the final book in the series and brings the Morozov saga to its conclusion.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Now Viktor Volkov is standing in my restaurant at closing time, looking like a decade of darkness made flesh, asking to work off a debt I never agreed to.
I built Petrova's from nothing. James Beard nomination. Michelin recognition. My kitchen, my rules, my empire. I didn't wait for him. I didn't pine. I built.
And now he wants to peel potatoes in my prep station like that fixes anything.
I should throw him out. I did throw him out.
He came back.
So I put him to work. Punishment labour. The worst jobs. The longest hours. If he wants to pay off ten years of silence, he can start with the onions.
But Viktor Volkov in my kitchen is something I wasn't prepared for. The way he moves through the stations. The way he takes orders. The way his hands — hands that have done terrible things — plate food like it's a prayer.
He doesn't deserve my forgiveness. He definitely doesn't deserve my heart.
But when Sokolov's men photograph my restaurant and run my financials, Viktor becomes the only man standing between my empire and the people who want to burn it down.
And the debt between us has nothing to do with money.
Tempted by the Bratva is Book 5 in the Boston Bratva Series. It features a scarred shadow operative hero, a fierce chef heroine, a second chance romance with a slow-burn redemption arc, and a guaranteed HEA. This is the final book in the series and brings the Morozov saga to its conclusion.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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