"I could break you so easily," he murmured, his hands clutching my throat, "But I love you too much to let you be destroyed, Printsessa..."

VASILY USMANOV

I should never have touched her.

As the eldest brother in an ancient brotherhood,

I know better.

She's innocent, untouched, unbroken.

One intoxicating night of succumbing to lust and my dark obsession ignites.

I have no place in a good girl's life...

She deserves to be more than my captive.

I have to let her go before it's too late.

“You’re right. You’re everything I shouldn’t want. Dangerous…handsome… a mistake from the very beginning.”

DRAYA MORRIS

It's dark... cold... terrifying.

Then I see him. Vasily.

He's taller, larger and rougher than any man I've ever known.

He sees the woman I was before the incident. The innocent one. The untouched one. The unbroken one.

He doesn't know what darkness I'm carrying.

And I like it.

I may be his captive, but he's the only one to ever make me feel free.