LENA

I should have left him to die.

Instead, I'm elbow-deep in the blood of the man who stole my life, stitching together the devil because he's the only weapon standing between me and the monster hunting us both.

The Iron Hand Syndicate wants my head.

Nikolai Kastellanos needs my hands.

Somewhere between the bullet I dug out of him and the chase that nearly killed us, our survival fused into something feral—

something I shouldn't want.

He's weak, fevered, bleeding…

And somehow more dangerous than ever.

Because now he isn't just my captor.

He's the one man I have to keep breathing—

even if it means letting him close enough to own me all over again.

NIKOLAI

I built an empire on violence.

I survived every betrayal, every bullet, every war.

But the moment I went down, bleeding out in a filthy safehouse, it was Lena Veselik who kept death off my throat.

Now she's strapped to my side as we run from the syndicate hunting us, hands shaking, jaw set, carrying both my life and my damnation in her pocket.

Every mile binds us deeper.

Every breath tastes like her defiance.

And every time she stabilizes me, touches me, saves me—

I want her more.

Not as leverage.

Not as a prisoner.

But as the only woman vicious enough to survive my world…

and sinful enough to love the monster dragging her deeper into it.

This is the second book in The Sin Wears His Smile Duet. Reading order:

Evil Wears a Suit

Death Wears His Name