They handed me to the Arias Cartel like currency, binding me as a wife to Matías Castillo, the scarred man known as the Beast.
I never chose this life, yet the bargain was already sealed in gunpowder and death.
Matías does not ask for obedience or loyalty; he seizes both and treats me as something he owns.
The child I carry is not his, and that secret is the one thing he has not yet claimed.
When he learns the truth, his refusal to forgive or forget may cost me him—the only danger greater than his wrath.
