Fearless III

ZARIAH

I never dreamt of another life or another man . . . Not until today.

I love everything about my husband, Vassili Resnov, except for the person he is becoming. Though the fighter was never an easy man to love, that just made me love him harder.

Like me, he's torn. Torn between the life he built for us and our baby, and his rights to the Bratva. The Resnovs split into two factions. Vassili is forced to join his father and become the devil, or his sister, the devil incarnate.

His actions have left me with two choices: Keep holding on to Vassili, with all of me and live … or fly away, only to die by his hands when he catches up to me.

VASSILI

I never wanted the crown, but peace was a lie.

Now the Resnov Empire is fractured, split between my father's cruelty and my sister's madness. To protect my family, I have to step into the dark and become the very monster I fought so hard not to be.

I can feel Zariah slipping away. I see the fear in her eyes when she looks at what I'm becoming. But she needs to understand one thing: there is no world where she leaves me.

She can run, she can fight, but she is tied to me. I will burn the entire empire to the ground before I let her go.