I was his prisoner. He became my salvation. Now we're both trapped by something darker than chains.
Dimitri Sokolov is the family enforcer—cold, cruel, and completely dead inside.
Or at least he was. Until I showed up to pay my brother's debt.
Twenty-three years of servitude. That was the price. Twenty-three years under the supervision of a man who looks at me with equal parts hatred and hunger.
He's vicious with his words. Brutal with his rules. Determined to make me suffer for crimes I didn't commit.
But I'm not breaking. Not bending. Not giving him the satisfaction of my fear.
And somewhere in our vicious game of push and pull, something shifted.
He paid my debt. Five million rubles from his own account. Freed me. Told me to leave. Tried to let me go.
But I came back.
Because beneath the cruelty, I saw the truth—Dimitri Sokolov isn't cruel. He's broken. And I'm the only one who can piece him back together.
Even if it destroys us both.
A dark mafia romance featuring enemies to lovers, degradation kink, forced proximity, emotional damage, and an enforcer who discovers that love is more dangerous than any bullet.
Dimitri Sokolov is the family enforcer—cold, cruel, and completely dead inside.
Or at least he was. Until I showed up to pay my brother's debt.
Twenty-three years of servitude. That was the price. Twenty-three years under the supervision of a man who looks at me with equal parts hatred and hunger.
He's vicious with his words. Brutal with his rules. Determined to make me suffer for crimes I didn't commit.
But I'm not breaking. Not bending. Not giving him the satisfaction of my fear.
And somewhere in our vicious game of push and pull, something shifted.
He paid my debt. Five million rubles from his own account. Freed me. Told me to leave. Tried to let me go.
But I came back.
Because beneath the cruelty, I saw the truth—Dimitri Sokolov isn't cruel. He's broken. And I'm the only one who can piece him back together.
Even if it destroys us both.
A dark mafia romance featuring enemies to lovers, degradation kink, forced proximity, emotional damage, and an enforcer who discovers that love is more dangerous than any bullet.
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