Bought by the Bratva Butcher

I was never meant to be anything but a debt. Anya Kovalenko has spent her whole life being her father's collateral. When he loses one hand of cards too many, she becomes the Bratva's — handed to Dmitri Sokolov, the enforcer they call the Butcher, as collateral on a debt that will never be paid. Dmitri doesn't want a wife. He wants the ledger her father stole, and Anya is the only lever that opens her father's mouth. But when the old man vanishes with the codes and the Sicilians come looking, Anya becomes the one thing Dmitri never expected to want to keep alive. He locks her in his penthouse. He teaches her the numbers. He starts calling her *zhena* like it means something. When her father surfaces, Dmitri doesn't hand her a choice in words. He hands her a gun. I shot the only family I had and I did not look away. Now I sit at the table, wearing a dead man's name, and the Butcher is looking at me like I'm the most dangerous thing in the room. He's right.