MILA
My father didn’t just lose money.
He lost me.
Taken as payment, I’m dragged into Mikhail Veksler’s world—a place where mercy doesn’t exist and power is written in blood. He locks me inside his fortress like I belong there, like I belong to him.
I should be terrified of him.
I am.
But fear isn’t the only thing he pulls out of me.
Mikhail doesn’t just control my body… he gets inside my head, twists my thoughts until resistance feels useless and surrender feels inevitable. Every touch burns, every command sinks deeper, every look strips away another piece of who I used to be.
I tell myself I’ll survive him.
I tell myself I won’t break.
But the truth is already clawing its way through me…
I don’t just want to escape anymore.
I want him.
And that might be the most dangerous thing of all.
MIKHAIL
I went there for money.
What I found was worth far more.
Mila Draslov was supposed to be a transaction—collateral to settle a debt. Weak, fragile, insignificant. That’s what she should’ve been.
She isn’t.
There’s something beneath her fear. Something that refuses to submit the way it should. And the moment I saw it, I knew one thing—
I was keeping her.
She’s mine now. Not just to own, but to break. To shape. To drag into my world until there’s nothing left of the girl she used to be.
I don’t care what it costs.
I don’t care who I have to destroy.
Because anyone who tries to take her from me…
will bleed for it.
And if she thinks she can survive me without losing herself…
she has no idea what I’m capable of.
This is the first book in the Series. Reading order: In Cold Blood, In Spilled Blood, In Royal Blood.