Debt of Silence

"You saw me kill a man. The only thing keeping you alive is my name on you."

I clean penthouses I'll never afford.

One rule, four years, never broken: need no one, owe nothing, leave before you get left.

Then a door on the forty-fifth floor opens when it shouldn't.

And I watch a man put a bullet in someone, on marble I was about to scrub.

Dimitri Volkov. Pakhan of the Volkov Bratva. Silver at the temples. Ice where his eyes should be. And he does his own killing.

He finds me in the supply closet.

He doesn't pull the trigger.

He takes me home instead.

A deadbolt I can't open. A guest room for my daughter. And I'm not stupid enough to call that rescue.

His own men want me gone. The Orlovs have put fifty thousand dollars on my face. And the man who owns the door has been watching me for nine months, and I don't find out until it's far too late to matter.

He says he doesn't leave.

He's keeping one more secret. When I find it, it burns everything down.

He should have pulled the trigger. I should have run. Neither of us did.

For readers who love: possessive pakhans who don't raise their voice, a single mom who never once cries in front of him, a four-year-old who is not a plot device, and a hero who would burn the city to keep what's his. What this book doesn't have is a good man. It has a man who is good at exactly one thing, and she is it.

Debt of Silence is a full-length standalone, book one in the Volkov Bratva, where each book belongs to a different man in the organization. This one is Dimitri and Sloane's. Natalya's story is next, in Debt of Blood.

Tropes: Silver Fox Bratva Pakhan · Age Gap (41/26) · Captive Witness · Forced Proximity · Single Mom FMC · "Touch Her and Die" · Obsessive Possessive Anti-Hero · He's Been Watching Her · Secret Baby · Morally Gray MMC · Dark Stalker Protector · Bratva Council Politics