His To Keep: Dark Mafia Romance

NIKOLAI

I told myself helping her was temporary. It isn’t.

Blair ends up in my bed, wearing my clothes, looking at me like she’s waiting for permission to breathe.

Then I learn what she’s actually been living with. The control. The tracking. The threats. The way she’s been punished for trying to leave.

Suddenly it’s not about liking her.

It’s about making sure she never ends up back in that situation again.

I take her with me when I travel. I keep her close because she’s still scared to be alone. She still jumps at every noise.

She has no idea how much danger she’s in—or how far the people who hurt her will go to get her back under their control.

But they’re not getting near her.

Not while she’s with me.

And she’s not going anywhere.

BLAIR

I’m not used to being cared for.

I’m used to being watched, tracked, told what to do, punished if I step out of line.

Leaving that life doesn’t mean I’m free. It means I’m running.

But Nikolai doesn’t treat me like I’m a problem he needs to fix. He treats me like I’m someone worth protecting, even when I tell him he shouldn’t get involved.

He buys me clothes because I’m too scared to go home. He carries me when I can’t walk. He sits with me when panic hits.

I should pull away. I should keep my distance.

But he asks me to come with him, and I say yes before I can think.

Now I’m in another country, meeting his family, pretending I’m not terrified that the past is going to catch up.

Because the people I escaped from don’t let go.

And if they find me, they won’t just take me—

they’ll destroy the one person who ever tried to help me.

This is book is part of the His to Claim Duet. Reading order:

His To Break.

His To Keep.