I never imagined I'd be sold at auction to a man fifteen years older than me, married against my will, and pregnant with his baby.
But Pakhans don't play by normal rules.
He's the head of a brutal Bratva empire, and from the moment he saw me on that stage, he decided I was his. Not just his wife. His obsession. His to protect, his to possess, his to worship in ways that make me forget I'm supposed to hate him.
There's a secret between our families. A promise made decades ago, sealed with matching lockets, binding his life to mine.
He says it's fate. He says he'll kill anyone who tries to take me from him.
I'm starting to believe him.
Because the man who bought me is also the man who's teaching me what it means to be craved—fiercely, dangerously, completely.
Even if it might destroy us both...
--MY 5 STAR REVIEW: Titled: There's a story behind -The Locket -Saint Xenia
Clarissa has a really rough start in this story. She's a nurse leaving her shift, when she saw something that she shouldn't have. She is then tolen after witnessing a Mafia murder and held and then sold at a rich men's action. Demyan Rysev burst into that aucton looking for his enemy, Ronan O'Shea when he sees her on the stage and when he sees her and that locket, he bids 500,00 dollars for her and they sign the binding marriage certificate right then. Wild ! He can't explain why he did it, he doesn't understand it. He just couldn't leave her there. There's a pull ,an attraction and something about that Locket. So like the one that his dead mother wore ever day of her life ! His mother was killed when he was 10 and that's when he killed all of his emotions too ! No one else can understand why he bought Clarissa, because it's not like him. But she's his now ! I really liked that Demyan wanted to give Clarissa choices. To have her come to him even though they are married. He wanted her to choose him. He says that she is changing him.
Gleb is his right hand man who thinks at first that Clarissa just might be too much danger for them because they have enough enemies.
The Petroics they were the ones who had taken her and sold her. Now the wanted her dead because of what she saw. Ronan O'Shea was another one of their enemies, one that was even more dangerous if that is even possible.
People do die. There is violence. There is heated, adult scenes between Clarissa and Demyan but also with a HEA for Clarissa and Demyan in the Epilogue. By the way, the story behind that Locket that Clarissa's grandmother gave her was tear worthy, emotional and so well written.
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