Burned by the Bratva Captain

Six years ago, Elena Marsh told a courtroom the truth about Kiril Volkov, and he went away for it. Now she is back for her mother's funeral, and the boy she testified against owns this town — the docks, the cops, and every door she needs to walk through to bury her mother and leave. He does not want her gone. He wants her enrolled at Thornbury U, living in a house he pays for, in a debt he says she will never finish paying. She plans to hate him until she can escape him. Then she finds her mother's things in his garage, and a forged signature on a death certificate, and a boy under the monster who has been keeping a promise for six years that nobody ever asked him to make. He is going to burn everything he built to keep her safe. She is going to let him.