TRIGGER WARNING (18+): This dark romance contains obsession, coercive control, captivity elements, violence and murder, explicit sexual content, dominance/power exchange, jealousy/possessiveness, and morally gray characters.
My vows are signed in blood and vodka.
A beautiful kidnapping finalized with legal paperwork.
I get sold to the Petrov Bratva’s feared monster.
A ring lands on my finger like a shackle, and the click of the chain around my waist sounds like a final judgment.
My deadbeat father sold me twice to pay his own debt.
I walk into a Russian club to learn how a brutal husband might break a wife.
The man who broke me didn’t disappear.
Mikhail Petrov is my owner/husband, older, colder, and built like structured violence in a tailored coat.
He speaks in silence, and the room obeys.
He doesn’t bargain.
He collects.
In this house, I am a bride on a leash.
In his world, love is a weakness that gets punished.
My silence keeps me alive.
His vows keep me trapped.
Trapped between a husband who claims me and a traitor who consumed me—neither knowing the other has already had a taste.