God, I never asked for this life.
Just needed to pay rent, clean rooms, keep my head down.
Then I found him—lifeless in that cheap motel bathtub.
And his brother found me.
Cormac's hands aren't gentle when he takes me in the night.
His eyes burn with something darker than just grief.
"Tell me what you saw," he demands, but keeps me after I confess.
Strange how captivity feels like salvation when he shields me from my past.
The Russians think I'm a spy, the Italians want me silenced.
Between powerful men and their bloody vendettas, I'm just trying to survive.
His family's ranch should feel like prison, but it doesn't.
When did his anger soften into something that makes my heart race?
I hate how his touch sets my skin on fire.
I hate even more that I crave it when he's gone.
The same hands that kill without mercy now trace my curves with reverence.
I never meant to need the devil, but here we are.
They're hunting us now. My blood has already stained these streets.
And the killer who murdered his brother won't stop until I join the body count.
This isn't some fairytale—it's a death wish wrapped in forbidden desire.
But the Irish devil has marked me as his, and I've already sold my soul.
The question isn't whether I'll survive loving Cormac Gifford.
It's whether any of us will survive what he'll do when they try to take me away.
My new boss is gorgeous, arrogant, and filthy rich.
The only problem?
He doesn't know he's also the father of my baby.
Six years ago, I was supposed to get married.
But the night before the wedding, my groom-to-be showed me sides of himself I'd never seen before.
I might've died in that hotel room...
If Mikhail Novikov hadn't burst in to save me.
Handsome, strong, capable knight in shining armor—sign me up, right?
WRONG.
Because Mikhail wasn't just the hero I never knew I needed...
He was also way more dangerous than I ever could've known.
But for one night, I let myself do something I never should've done.
It was worth it—several times over, if you catch my drift.
In the morning, though, I did the reasonable thing:
I RAN.
For six years, I keep running.
Until I walk into work one day, and find my new boss waiting in my office.
Guess who?
And guess what he does when finds out about our baby?
Many things which seem useless are magical to those who know how to use them...
Waet Tree Village has family roots and heritage as ancient as the silver trees themselves. Chassy, Nita and Andrev are expected remain here, living out traditional lives until they eventually die from lack of excitement.
-Yawn-
One summer day, their idyllic lives start to unravel, when a freaky creature straight out of a legend arrives spouting prophecies about the destruction of their village. Then an old wizard sends them on a quest with a bunch of useless gifts, but he DIES before even telling them where to go.
Retrieve the Amulet of Hope or all is lost! That's all they know; that's all anyone can tell them.
So they set off in pursuit of this mysterious amulet, each for his or her own reason. They learn that the world outside of Waet Tree Village is nothing like the storybooks they grew up with, and the Amulet of Hope is only the beginning of their adventures.
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