I was meant to live quietly.<br/>Serve drinks. Finish my degree.<br/>Stay invisible.<br/><br/>Until I saw him kill a man.<br/>Until the shadows turned toward me.<br/>Until the devil himself came to save me.<br/><br/>He’s twice my age. A Pakhan.<br/>The Bratva’s ruthless king.<br/>And the only man standing between me and a bullet.<br/><br/>He says the FBI can’t protect me.<br/>He says I’ll wear his ring... or I’ll die without it.<br/><br/>But the moment I became his bride,<br/>I stopped being a target—<br/>and became his obsession.<br/><br/>Behind his dragon tattoo and cold green eyes<br/>lives the man who swore a blood oath—<br/>to protect me. To claim me. To own me.<br/><br/>He’s my captor and my savior.<br/>My forbidden Christmas miracle.<br/>And somewhere between his violence and his vow,<br/>I lost my fear... and gave him everything.<br/><br/>Now danger is closing in again—<br/>and this time, I’m not running.<br/><br/>Because I carry his secret beneath my heart.<br/>His legacy.<br/>His love.<br/>His undoing.<br/><br/>This Christmas, salvation comes wrapped in sin.<br/><br/>Author’s Note:<br/>A dark, steamy age-gap Christmas mafia romance where a vow written in blood becomes a love that changes everything. No Cliffhanger! HEA Guaranteed!