I was meant to live quietly.
Serve drinks. Finish my degree.
Stay invisible.
Until I saw him kill a man.
Until the shadows turned toward me.
Until the devil himself came to save me.
He’s twice my age. A Pakhan.
The Bratva’s ruthless king.
And the only man standing between me and a bullet.
He says the FBI can’t protect me.
He says I’ll wear his ring… or I’ll die without it.
But the moment I became his bride,
I stopped being a target—
and became his obsession.
Behind his dragon tattoo and cold green eyes
lives the man who swore a blood oath—
to protect me. To claim me. To own me.
He’s my captor and my savior.
My forbidden Christmas miracle.
And somewhere between his violence and his vow,
I lost my fear… and gave him everything.
Now danger is closing in again—
and this time, I’m not running.
Because I carry his secret beneath my heart.
His legacy.
His love.
His undoing.
This Christmas, salvation comes wrapped in sin.