Venom: Dark Mafia Romance

 MILA

I survived the trap Aleksandr set for me, walking out of the lion's den with my life but losing the last of my freedom.

 I am no longer just his employee or his pawn; I am his prisoner in a war I never intended to fight. He has stripped away my defenses, isolating me in his fortress of glass and steel, watching me with a predator's patience. He knows I am hiding something, he saw the lie in my eyes, and now he won’t stop until he has torn my secrets from my soul.

Every day is a battle to keep Marina buried beneath the mask of Mila Orlova, but Aleksandr is a master of breaking things. His calculated cruelty and sudden, terrifying tenderness are weapons I don’t know how to defend against. I hate him for what he’s done, for the monster he is, but when he touches me, the hatred twists into a dark, shameful hunger I can’t control.

I am trapped between the vengeance I swore to exact and the man who is slowly consuming me from the inside out.

ALEKSANDR

She thinks she passed my test, but she merely walked into a deeper level of my game.

Mila Orlova is not the fragile charity director she pretends to be; she is a viper waiting to strike, and I have never been more fascinated. I have cleared the board of other threats so I can focus entirely on her, on unraveling the beautiful, complex knot of her lies. I don’t just want her submission anymore; I want her truth.

My obsession with her has become a dangerous distraction, a weakness my enemies are already trying to exploit, but they mistake my focus for vulnerability. They do not understand that I will burn the Directorate to the ground before I let anyone else touch what is mine. She is fighting me at every turn, building walls I will enjoy destroying, but she forgets one simple fact: in my world, there is no escape.

She is already mine; she just hasn't admitted it yet.

This is the second book in the Vipers in Velvet Series. Reading order: Viper, Venom, Vow.