RUTHLESS PAKHAN: An Age Gap, Bratva Romance

I broke into the wrong house.Not to steal. To hide.One gunshot. One dead stranger. One desperate leap over the wall of the most feared estate in the city.I expected an empty mansion. Instead, I walked straight into him.Lev Volkov.The silver-haired Pakhan whose name makes grown men lower their voices.He should have thrown me to the mercenaries hunting me. Instead, he locked the gates and made a chilling decree: "You stay where I can protect you."Now, I'm trapped inside his fortress while his soldiers hunt my family's killers. Every day, I discover another side of the ruthless king everyone fears.The man who never smiles. The man who sleeps with a gun beneath his pillow. The man who looks at me like I'm his biggest mistake-and his dirty secret.He says I'm too young. Too innocent. Too forbidden. But the dark hunger in his eyes says otherwise.Then the truth shatters everything.My family wasn't murdered out of revenge. They were killed for an inheritance that ties my bloodline directly to the Bratva throne. And the only way to prevent an all-out syndicate war... is for me to become the Pakhan's wife.Not because his council demands it. Because the silver fox who swore he'd never love again refuses to let anyone else claim me.Now every rival family wants my head. Every shadow holds a traitor. And Lev has only one promise left to keep: Anyone who reaches for what's his... dies first.RUTHLESS PAKHAN is a standalone, high-heat mafia romance featuring a silver fox hero, a possessive protector, forced proximity, and a fierce heroine. HEA guaranteed.