My father didn’t leave me an inheritance. He left me to pay the debt. The night he disappeared, armed men stormed my apartment.
By sunrise, I was standing before Maksim Volkov—Pakhan of the Volkov Bratva. The most feared man in Russia. My kidnapper. The only man standing between me and the monsters hunting me.
He says my father spent years building the Pakhan’s empire around my name.
Now every Bratva family wants me. Every alliance begins with me. Every betrayal ends with me.
And somewhere in the shadows… My father is waiting for me to make the wrong move. Maksim calls me his prisoner. His men call me protected. The rest of the Bratva calls me something far worse.
Blacklisted. A woman powerful enough to start a war. A prize every king wants to claim.
I should hate the man who stole my freedom. Instead, he’s the only one standing between me and the monsters hunting me.
Every threat against me awakens something terrifying inside him. Every man who reaches for me disappears.
And every time I swear I’ll never belong to him… He looks at me as though that decision was never mine to make.
Then everything changes. Two little pink lines. A secret I can tell no one. Because my child isn’t just the Pakhan’s heir… It’s the key to an empire.
And I don’t know what’s more dangerous… Keeping his child a secret…
Or telling the most possessive man in Russia that I’m carrying his heir.
