NATALIA
He took a bullet meant for me. Then he left me in a hospital without a word.
Six months. No calls. No messages. Only a rose on my mother's step at four in the morning on my birthday, and nobody there when I opened the door.
Everyone tells me to forget him. My mother. My father. The whole town that watched a black car take me away.
So I boarded the ship that carries his trucks and crossed the sea to find him.
I found a ghost in a club under the river, sitting in the dark with a stranger on his lap.
I found the man who made him, smiling, pouring wine, telling me every terrible thing my monster has ever done.
I should walk away. I know exactly what he is now. I'm not going anywhere.
SALVATORE
I asked the man who owns me for one thing. Out.
He smiled. In my world a man leaves the Family in a box.
So I did the only kind thing I have ever done. I left her. I let her hate me. I gave her silence, because silence was the one thing he couldn't read.
Then she walked through a steel door in a red dress and broke every rule I had left.
Now he wants her at his table. He wants one last job from me, and he swears it will set me free.
I don't believe him.
I'll pay whatever he asks. For her, I'd pay it twice.
This is the second book in The Monster's Heart Series. Reading order:
Cruel Monster.
Sinful Monster.
