His To Keep

Nina
He bought me at an auction.
I should hate him for it.
Instead, I can't stop wanting the dangerously possessive man who watches me like I already belong to him.
Matteo Vittorio is everything I should fear. He is powerful, ruthless, and capable of terrifying violence with a single quiet command. In his world, people disappear, blood stains marble floors, and loyalty matters more than mercy. But behind closed doors, the man everyone fears treats me like something precious.

That should make me run.
Except every time he touches me, every time he calls me piccola vipera in that rough Italian accent, I forget I was ever trying to survive him in the first place.
The problem?
Men like Matteo don't let go once they decide something is theirs.
And somewhere between fear, obsession, and the way he looks at me like I'm the only soft thing left in his world...
I think I stopped wanting him to.

Matteo
I bought her because I couldn't walk away.
One look at Nina and every instinct I possess turned violent. Protective. Possessive. She was never supposed to matter. Never supposed to become the one weakness capable of bringing me to my knees.
But she did.
Now she's everywhere in my house, my thoughts, my blood and losing her feels more terrifying than dying ever did.
I've built an empire through blood and fear. Men lower their eyes when I speak. Rivals pray they never end up on my bad side. I know exactly how to destroy threats before they ever reach my door.
What I don't know?
How to survive loving a woman enough to let her break me.
Because Nina doesn't belong in my world. She deserves peace, safety, freedom.
And I'm the man willing to burn cities to the ground to give it to her.