Bargaining with the Bratva Wolf

The Volkov bratva owns Brighton Beach, and it owns Mara Sokolova's debts — every one of them, down to the last drop she's stolen from their own blood bank. When enforcer Kiril Volkov comes to collect, the fated-mate bond slams into place between a wolf who has never disobeyed and a thief who has never once stopped. Killing her is the clean answer. Hiding her is the one he chooses, and every lie after that is a nail in his own coffin. Mara doesn't want a mate. She wants her sister off the transplant list, and she'll bargain with a monster to get it. But the pakhan demands the claim be made publicly or not at all, and Kiril will have to tear through his own pack to keep her. Some bonds cost everything. Mara and Kiril pay it anyway — and end up with a one-bedroom in Bensonhurst and a Tuesday morning that neither of them expected to survive to see.