Their Serenity (A Reverse Harem)
The tension in his shoulders had coiled so tight he thought he might snap.
He should have expected this. From the second he locked eyes with those five men in the café, he knew this moment would come. The past had never been the kind to stay buried, not for people like them. Not for men who lived in the shadows of power and blood.
Sofia was different now. He had seen it in the steel of her gaze, the way she held herself—not just as a mother, not just as the girl he used to know, but as something else entirely. A woman carved by war and loss, by survival. The Bratva’s queen, they called her. And yet, to him, she was still Sofia. The girl he once watched scrape her knees climbing fences too hi