ANMELDENShe’s a disgraced biker princess who is forced to marry the mafia king in seven days, a marriage she never wanted and a man she was raised to hate. Lena Orlov is twenty five and out of options. Her family’s club has lost half its territory to the Volkov Bratva, her father cares more about his next drink than he does about her, and her older brother, the same brother who has been hurting her since they were children, has just handed her name across the table like a peace offering to buy them all a little more time. No one is coming to save her. Nikolai Volkov is everything everyone warned her about. He is ruthless, cold, and treats women like they are something he can throw away when he is done. Lena thinks if she just keeps her head down she might survive him. But the longer she stays inside his house the more she starts to learn, about the secrets of her father’s clubhouse, about the brother she trusted with her life, and about the man she married. And while she is trying to make sense of all of it, the world outside the Volkov gates is turning against her. Old enemies have realized the mafia king has finally found something he is afraid to lose, and her name is Lena. Someone is already planning to take her. Someone else is already planning to kill her and break her bond with the king. Will she survive long enough to find out who she can actually trust? And when the time comes to choose between the family that sold her and the man who claimed her, which side will she pick?
Mehr anzeigenLena's POV I stared at the ink on the back of the photograph until the cursive letters blurred together. ‘If anything happens to us, tell the kids the truth.’ My fingers trembled so hard the corners of the photo snapped against my skin. The truth about what? I looked back at the front of the picture, studying the two women. My mother, looking younger than I had ever known her, laughing with her head tilted back, her arm linked tightly with the mother of the man who had just pinned me to a bed upstairs. They looked like sisters. They looked completely safe in each other's presence. A dizzying wave of confusion rushed through me, followed immediately by a cold, sharp dread. My entire life had been built on a foundation of specific stories. I had been raised on a steady diet of hatred, fed to me by my father and Alexei since I was old enough to understand the word ‘Bratva’. According to them, the Volkovs were monsters. They were cold-blooded animals who had spent decades tryin
Lena's POV He kept me pinned to the bed, the sheer weight of his body crushing any chance I had of breaking free. His lips moved aggressively along my jaw and down my neck, his breath hot and ragged against my skin. I fought him with everything I had, my hands pushing desperately against his chest, my muscles straining until they ached. But as the seconds ticked by, a terrifying realization washed over me. Despite the panic screaming in my mind, despite the anger flooding my veins, my body was betraying me. A sudden, unwanted warmth bloomed deep in my chest, and my heart hammered not just from fear, but from a strange, overwhelming rush of adrenaline. My skin tingled wherever his hands touched, reacting to him in a way I couldn't control.The sudden shift in my own biology horrified me, making me stiffen beneath him. Nikolai must have felt the change, or perhaps he just grew tired of the resistance. He pulled back just enough to look down at me, his eyes dark, wild, and completely
Lena's POV I carefully slipped the letter back where I had found it. I didn’t want to read any further into his mother’s personal belongings. It felt like trespassing on the only part of this house that hadn’t been corrupted by the Volkov name. I closed the drawer quietly, trying to shake the heavy feeling in my chest.A sharp click of heels on the concrete floor ruined the silence.I didn't even have to look up to know who it was. Irina stood at the entrance of the garage space, her arms crossed and a judgmental sneer fixed on her face. She looked at the grease on my hands, then at the tools scattered around me."You really are acting uncultured," she said, her voice dripping with artificial pity. "This isn't a playground for grease monkeys, Lena. You’re supposed to be learning how to be a lady, though I suppose you can't force a pig to fly."I picked up a rag and began wiping my hands, refusing to give her the satisfaction of an angry reaction. "If you're here to give me a lecture
Lena's POV A week inside Volkov Manor turned into something that felt less like days passing and more like the house itself deciding how time should behave around me, because every morning looked the same.When I opened my eyes in that enormous bedroom, every night ended the same when I finally surrendered to sleep, and everything in between blurred into a loop of dressing, eating what was brought to me.Sitting by the window pretending I could see anything beyond iron gates, then undressing again just to repeat it all over like I was a doll someone had placed on a shelf and occasionally remembered to wind up, and the worst part wasn’t even the confinement itself but how quickly my mind started to adjust to it, like my body had accepted the rhythm before my pride could object.On the third day I stopped counting hours and started counting footsteps outside my door instead, because there were always footsteps in this place, distant ones belonging to guards I never saw properly.Softer






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