Betrayed by the Bratva Wolf

Sasha Petrovna left the Bratva six years ago with her brother's blood on a coat she still can't throw away. She runs a bakery in Buffalo and pretends wolves don't exist. Two nights before Christmas, three of them walk into her shop. Kirill Malenkov was her brother's best friend. He was also the one who pulled the trigger. Now he's standing in her kitchen saying the pakhan wants her fur, and that he's the only thing standing between her and the debt collectors. She stabs him with a bread knife. He stays. Over three snowstorm nights, Kirill offers her the only deal that keeps them both alive: a fake mate bond, one Christmas Eve, to draw the traitors out of the pack. Sasha says yes because she wants to see them hang. She doesn't say yes because of the way he still says her name. By midnight mass there will be a new pakhan, a real bond, and a ghost in the kitchen who finally gets to see her smile.