Brutal Heir (Ruthless Heirs #3)

She came to heal the monster. Instead, she woke the man beneath.

Alessandro

They say I should’ve died in that explosion.

Maybe I did… because the man staring back at me in the mirror sure as hell isn’t the heir to the Gemini empire anymore.

He’s a scarred, savage thing held together by pain, rage, and a hunger for vengeance.

And now they’ve sent her, this fiery, foul-mouthed redhead with zero self-preservation to babysit me.

I should hate her.

But the longer she stays, the more her hands aren’t just stitching up my wounds…

They’re breaking through my armor, awakening a fire I swore was dead.

And if I’m...

She came to heal the monster. Instead, she woke the man beneath.

Alessandro

They say I should’ve died in that explosion.

Maybe I did… because the man staring back at me in the mirror sure as hell isn’t the heir to the Gemini empire anymore.

He’s a scarred, savage thing held together by pain, rage, and a hunger for vengeance.

And now they’ve sent her, this fiery, foul-mouthed redhead with zero self-preservation to babysit me.

I should hate her.

But the longer she stays, the more her hands aren’t just stitching up my wounds…

They’re breaking through my armor, awakening a fire I swore was dead.

And if I’m not careful, I’ll end up dragging her into my bed and into my darkness.

Rory

All I wanted was to disappear.

Start over. Stay hidden. Keep breathing.

I didn’t plan on becoming the live-in nurse to the most dangerous man in Manhattan.

Alessandro Rossi is angry, wounded, and lethal.

Even half-broken, he could end me with a word.

But I see what’s behind the scars—the monster everyone fears and the man no one else knows.

I should run.

But the thing about running from monsters?

Eventually, you stop being afraid of the dark.

And worse, you start craving it.