Blazing Embers

I was free for exactly five days.
I found my chance and I ran.
Crossed oceans. Changed names.

Then Ruslan Dragunov found me.
I thought he’d kill me.
Instead, he forced a ring onto my finger and a contract onto my soul. He’s as unpredictable as hell.
His wife. His prisoner. His weapon.
And now, we’re going back to Vegas.
To retrieve Elana.
The child I left with my sister—the child he knows is Gavriil Mirochin’s.

But it isn’t just about revenge anymore.
His brothers are missing.
His one sister is dead.
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I was free for exactly five days.
I found my chance and I ran.
Crossed oceans. Changed names.

Then Ruslan Dragunov found me.
I thought he’d kill me.
Instead, he forced a ring onto my finger and a contract onto my soul. He’s as unpredictable as hell.
His wife. His prisoner. His weapon.
And now, we’re going back to Vegas.
To retrieve Elana.
The child I left with my sister—the child he knows is Gavriil Mirochin’s.

But it isn’t just about revenge anymore.
His brothers are missing.
His one sister is dead.
His other sister—won’t come home.
And the truth he’s still searching for?

It’s more dangerous than either of us realized.

I should hate him. I should fight him.
But every night he chains me to him—
Every time he drags me beneath him—
I forget why I ever wanted to escape.

Because there’s one more secret he doesn’t know.
The baby growing in my belly? It’s his.
And once he finds out — There won’t be a safe place left in this world for me to run.