Vice: Dark Mafia Romance

MILA

My father thought he was settling a debt.  He was handing me to the devil.

Azlan Zharkov is not a man you bargain with. He's a weapon in a tailored suit, a butcher with beautiful manners and a record full of blood. I was supposed to be temporary, an arrangement, a signature at the bottom of my father's ruin. Instead, I became the one thing he didn't plan for.

He stripped away my silk my music my name. He taught me how to kneel without breaking and how to burn without screaming. Every order from his mouth feels like a blade against my skin and God help me I don't always want to move away from it.

He calls me property.

He took my freedom, my dignity… and now he's reaching for the one thing I swore he'd never have. The worst part? I might let him take that too.

But the more he tightens his grip the more I realize something dangerous. Every time those frozen eyes find mine, something wicked and hungry stirs beneath my skin.  

Collateral can turn into a weapon.

This is the first book in the The Ledger of Blood and Silk Series. Reading order:

AZLAN

She was supposed to be a transaction. A pretty piece of power to bleed her corrupt father dry and nothing more.

Then Mila Montclair looked at me like she wanted to carve my heart out with her bare hands, and every cold, calculated thing inside me went to war with itself.

The Senator's daughter looks fragile in ruined silk but there is venom behind those hazel eyes and I tasted it the moment she tried to defy me. She trembles under my rules under my hands under my shadow and still she glares at me like she wants to set my empire on fire.

Good.

I don't want a doll. I want something that fights back.

She belongs to me now every breath every bruise every whispered protest in the dark, and she has no idea that she stopped being just debt the moment I decided she was mine. I will break her old life crush her father's illusions and teach her exactly what she is worth in my world.

And if she thinks this is captivity, she hasn't understood the game yet.

Because once she stops fighting me

she might start fighting beside me.

And that will be the moment this city learns to fear us both.

This is the first book in the Crowned in Vice Duet. Reading order: Vice, Ruin.