Traded at the Altar

Anya Morozova was taken from a train platform on a Wednesday and married on a Saturday, in a dress that still smelled like another girl. The man at the altar is Kirill Volkov. Her father's debt made them meet. Kirill's reputation made the wedding necessary — a wife is cheaper than a war. He gave her the top of the tower, a guard named Misha, and a rule she didn't believe: no one touches her until she asks. She threw a lamp at his head on the sixth day. She asked on the sixtieth. Then she heard something she wasn't supposed to hear, and kept it for eight days, and watched her husband walk into a corridor with no exit. A captive bratva arranged marriage romance about a girl sold at a platform and the woman who came down the stairs on her own terms.