Bought for the Bratva Alpha

Karina Solis plays second chair cello in an orchestra quietly financed for nine years by a man who turns out to be a werewolf, a bratva captain, and the alpha of a pack that's falling apart. When the orchestra is dissolved and her visa runs out, Lev Novik offers her a private teaching position at his country estate — a cover he buys the way he buys everything, without asking. Karina reads the terms, says no, and is moved into the east wing anyway. Over one long hostile winter she becomes the only person in the house who won't accept his silence: she teaches his half-turn cousin to read, plays music in rooms that have none, and finds the file that explains why his own sister left and took the south holdings with her. When Yekaterina arrives with bratva muscle in a snowstorm, Karina is the one who negotiates — with a written contract, a borrowed wolf, and a cello case full of paper. She wins. She doesn't forgive him for any of it. She signs the next contract anyway.