Ruined in Ink

My brother owes the wrong men $4.2 million. Dario Marzani has decided how he’ll pay.

With me.

I built a career, paid my own bills, and kept my family’s business out of my life. Then my brother lost a shipment of guns, and my father invited a monster to the kitchen table.

Dario can erase the debt. His price is my hand in marriage.

He gets a stake in the family company. I get his ring, his rules, and two men outside a front door I can’t always walk through.

My husband breaks bones over a touch. He expects obedience. And he watches me as though he’s already decided which parts of my life I’m allowed to keep.

I should know better than to want him.

I want him anyway.

Then I start asking where my family’s money went. My brother lies. My father closes ranks. Strangers know where to find me.

Dario promises he’ll handle it.

But every answer draws me closer to something my husband has kept hidden. Something that could destroy the choice I’ve finally made to love him.

And a man who paid this much to have me may never accept that I can leave.