Take What's Mine

I was collateral before I was ever a person to him. He made sure I understood the difference.

Lena Marsh's father owes a debt he can't pay — not in money, in silence. When the men who come to collect it decide a daughter is worth more than an apology, Lena doesn't get a vote. She gets Ezra Voss: the organization's fixer, the man tasked with holding her until the debt is settled one way or another.

Ezra doesn't explain himself. He doesn't need to. He tells her where to stand, when to eat, how far the property line goes before the men watching it stop being polite about it. He is precise, unreadable, and entirely certain that she belongs to him now — not as punishment, but as fact.

What Lena doesn't expect is how carefully he watches her. How the rules bend, one by one, the longer she's under his roof. How the man built to be unmoved keeps finding reasons to stay in the room a little longer than the job requires.

She hates that she notices. She hates more that he notices her noticing.

As the debt that brought them together threatens to unravel into something far more dangerous — a rival faction who wants Ezra's leverage for themselves — Lena has to decide whether the man holding her captive is the danger, or the only thing standing between her and it. And Ezra has to decide if there's a version of this where he lets her go at all.

Tropes: Captive Romance, Possessive Alpha, Forced Proximity, Dark Mafia, Forbidden, Slow-Burn to Explicit

Contains mature themes and content intended for adult readers 18+.