Claimed by the Cossack

Anya Melnik has buried a bratva husband and made it very clear that she will not take another. She interprets contracts now, three languages, no loyalties. It's a clean life, and she has been careful to keep it that way for three years. Then she takes a job at a summit between two families and Ruslan Belyaev walks into the room — the pakhan who buried her husband, and the mate she has never once acknowledged. Twelve years ago the bond surfaced too early and they both had reasons to walk away. Now it's back, and so is the name that shows up in her husband's death file and in Ruslan's wife's. Anya has a transcript. Ruslan has a debt. Together they have one chance at a council vote that neither family wants to lose. A fated mates bratva romance about two widows and one late bond.