Ruin: Dark Mafia Romance

My father says the man I hated is dead.

He says he watched him fall on a Brooklyn pier with a bullet in his side, and now I'm going to be sensible. I'm going to put on my mother's wedding dress and marry the man my father chose.

I smile. I nod. I let them pin the hem.

I've spent my whole life being the quiet one. I'm done.

Then a dead man walks into my wedding.

He lied to me about everything. Why he took me. What he wanted. Who he is. And now he wants to help me tear my father's empire down to the stone.

So we make a deal in blood. The truth, all of it, every time.

If he lies to me once more, I'll open his throat myself.

AZLAN

I built her father's debt for a year. I bought her with it. I lied to her from the first night.

She has every reason to want me dead.

Instead she holds a knife to my scar and offers me terms. No more lies. Not one. Not even to keep her safe.

I've never told anyone the truth in my life. For her, I'll learn.

Her father owns judges and police and a seat in the Senate, and a secret that has kept him untouchable for twelve years. He wants her back. He wants me in the harbor.

He'll have to come through me.

She was never his. She was never mine. But I'll die before I let anyone take her again.

This is the second book in The Crowned in Vice Series. Reading order:

Vice.

Ruin.