Vicious Vow

He took me in front of four hundred people. He never once looked at me while he did it.

Eleven words. That was all it cost him.

My name. His house. Four years.

Everyone at Cairnwood is the child of a criminal. Not me. I got in on brains and I've stayed on favors — I find things out, I make myself the girl nobody can do without, and I have never needed a man to stand between me and anything.

Now I sleep three doors down from his room.

Maksim Zharov is twenty-three, Bratva, and he runs a house full of men who don't respect him. He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't explain himself. He gives an order and then he waits, and he will wait all night.

He walks me to the gate himself. Tells me the road is open at any hour, that no man of his will stop me.

Then he tells me that everything he can do for me ends at the gatehouse.

A boy puts a hand on the small of my back in the chapel range and leaves it there. By morning he's dead, and nobody at Cairnwood says his name out loud again.

I can't leave. I can't keep my mouth shut. And somewhere between the wrist he won't let go of and the orders I keep answering out loud, I've stopped being sure which one of us is held.

He took four years of me and he has never told me why.

So which should scare me more — that I can't walk away from him, or that some nights, I don't try?

Vicious Vow is a dark college mafia romance with a possessive heir who owns four years of her life and a hero who kills any man who touches her. Forced marriage. The hunt. Captive romance. He falls first. Enemies to lovers. Surprise pregnancy. Cairnwood Elite, Book 2. Dual POV. HEA guaranteed. 18+.