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The story
After her father takes something from a ruthless mafia boss and vanishes, an ER nurse wakes as his captive. Her next choice could turn the confrontation into a bargain, an escape, or a dangerous alliance.
After her father takes something from a ruthless mafia boss and vanishes, an ER nurse wakes as his captive. Her next choice could turn the confrontation into a bargain, an escape, or a dangerous alliance.
When I came to, I was on my knees on a cold floor. My wrists were bound behind my back, and I could taste blood from my split lip. In front of me, men in black suits stood like a wall. No one spoke. It was the kind of room where even breathing seemed to require permission.
Among them, in the darkest corner, a man sat. Damian Locke. He had bronze skin, dark hair pushed back from his face, and a tailored suit stretched across broad shoulders. The scar running from his left brow to his cheekbone was brutal, and somehow it only made his face more dangerous. He was handsome enough to make even the wound look like an ornament. But his eyes were another matter. They belonged to a man who knew exactly how to break a person.
Whatever my father took from you, I'm not the one who's going to pay for it. I lifted my chin and said nothing. He crouched in front of me and tipped my jaw up with one long finger. "Listen, Miss Vale." His cold thumb dragged slowly over the blood at the corner of my mouth. "Your father took something from me." My pulse hammered as he leaned close enough for me to feel his breath. "Everyone who walks into this room ends up as one of two things." His gaze settled on my lips like a beast deciding whether to tear into me or let me live.
"You become mine."
His lips stopped a breath from mine. He didn't kiss me. Instead, his smile turned crueler. "Or you become a corpse."
