Tormented Heir

My legacy is sorrow. 

My history is torment. 

My future will be chaos.

I wasn't born a soldier, but I became one. 

First for the military, and then for my Bratva family. 

A new conflict has broken out between the Bratva and their criminal enemies, and our Pakhan tasks me with rescuing the innocent girl taken as a pawn in this vicious game.

As his enforcer and stepson—the Bratva prince and heir to his throne—I'm the only one he trusts. I enter a new fight. I save the girl, just like the prince in a fairy tale, but there's another girl there. 

Adriana. 

She isn't mine to save. 

She isn't mine to own. 

And yet … she calls to me. 

Stunningly beautiful. 

Innocent. 

With her long dark hair and that lone tattoo of a tiny bluebird peeking from her shoulder, she's everything I can never have, and everything I want.

Adriana was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now she's going to become part of my world.  I burn deep in my soul with the need to claim her from the moment I see her.

This obsession will either be my saving or both our downfall.

Author's note: This is a prequel introduction to the Bratva Born world and to the background of Dimitri Baranov. The following duet is the love story between Dimitri and his Adriana.