Gilded in Obsession

I offered myself to a monster to save my little sister.

Maxim Orlov came to collect a blood debt from my family.

He wanted the youngest Morozov bride.

So I took her place.

Now I wear the ring of a Bratva Pakhan feared even by men who think themselves untouchable.

I should hate him for claiming me.

For locking me inside his mansion.

For making my body betray every warning in my head.

But Maxim does not touch me like a punishment.

He touches me like I am already his obsession.

And when betrayal rises inside his own empire, I learn the cruelest truth of all:

The man who took me as payment may be the only one willing to burn the world to keep me.

She spared her sister the monster—and became his favorite prey.