“Look at me when I break you. I want to see exactly what I ruin.”

My ex dumped me by text.

So naturally, I got drunk, ugly-cried through three bottles of wine, and broke into my best friend’s apartment wearing nothing but a hoodie and a green sheet mask.

What I didn’t know?

He’d sublet it to a green-eyed Bratva killer—hotter than hell, meaner than sin, and absolutely not here for my meltdown.

Now, 100 days later, I’m not just his problem.

I’m his bride. And his baby mama.

Anton Malikov is not the kind of man you survive groping in a drunken haze.
Which is a problem… because I second-base’d him like he was a door handle and I was blindfolded.

He's Bratva. Lethal. Quiet.
The last face people see when they've made the wrong choice.
And now... I'm one of those people.

Turns out breaking into the wrong apartment was just my warm-up act.
The real disaster started a few days later—when I accidentally uncovered a laundering scheme at work and got myself added to a Bratva kill list.

Now I'm living in his penthouse—under his rules, his protection, and very much his control.
And somewhere between dodging danger, spilling secrets, and trying really hard not to climb him like a tree...

I let him in.

One bed.
Too many nights pretending I didn't want him in it.
And then I let him ruin me the only way he knows how— obsessively. Completely.
On every surface he could find.

Tropes

Good Girl x Bad Boy
Forced Proximity
Protection Deal
Touch Her and Die
He Falls First (and hard)
Only Soft For Her
Found Family

100 Days to Ruin Me is Book 1 of the Mark by Malikov duet. Mary and Anton’s story continues — darker, deeper, and more dangerously addictive — in Book 2, 100 Days to Claim Me.

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MY REVIEW- TITLED: Mary & Anton a 5 Star read

I absolutely LOVED this author's writing style !!! Mary Catherine Sullivan & Anton Malikov get married first chapter in; she's two months pregnant. Their attraction to each other has been electric ! Her only witness at her outdoor wedding is her grandmother. Jasper Saint James, is also there and almost makes her laugh at the altar. He's a man, from Milan. In her words, he's a runaway disaster that she's known since 7th grade best friends, who mugs at her wedding, "If he murders you, I will avenge you." Made me smile ! She got married to her Bratva killer; she's both thrilled and scared ! She's just been an overlooked, unappreciated banking complaint taker according to her broken confession ! Her ex, Evan was really a piece of work. Good riddance.

Then we GET to see a hundred days earlier when Mary messed up ! It's hysterical ! Ad her grandmother is homey and funny too !

Anton is known as, The Reaper and is in Vegas looking for Viktor Kozlov who skimmed 2 million dollars from a Bratva casino. Anton's Pakhan , Igor is paranoid. He wants him found to get his money back ! And he's getting more deadly paranoid as the days drag on.

Ray Bishop, is an ex-black ops now freelance fixer meets up with Anton, offering a place to stay. Bishop owes Anton and they survived things together. People who are closer to Anton are: Boris , is his clean up bodies and tracking phones guy. Lev just likes disposing of bodies and he's funny too ! Dima is a whole different kind of killer guy, he barely talks at all just that glacier like stare.

This part of the story kept me all in this and I liked how the story went into the previous days BEFORE the wedding. Now, I'm looking forward to Part 2 of their story, " 100 Days to Claim Me".

I received an ARC and these are my own thoughts about it !