VALENTINA

I used to be Dominic Salvestro's captive.

Now I'm the woman willing to spill blood beside him.

After a traitor tears me from Dominic's grasp, he comes for me exactly as I knew he would—leaving bodies behind him until I'm back where he believes I belong.

With him.

But there is no powerful mafia family protecting us anymore. No mansion. No army.

We're wounded, hunted, and hiding in the frozen wilderness while half the underworld wants Dominic dead.

Isolation should make me remember what he did to me.

Instead, it strips away everything except the truth.

I want my monster.

His obsession. His darkness. His hands on me. The dangerous devotion neither of us knows how to survive.

And when our enemies finally find us, I discover Dominic isn't the only one capable of becoming a monster.

The girl he stole is gone.

I'll pull the trigger myself now.

And God help anyone who tries to take him from me.

DOMINIC

They made one mistake.

They took Valentina from me.

I tore through every bastard standing between us to get her back, and I'd gladly do it again.

But finding my girl doesn't end the war.

It starts another one.

We're fugitives now. Hunted from every direction while the empire that should have been mine devours itself behind us.

Hidden away from the world, there's nowhere left for Valentina and me to hide from each other.

She sees what I really am.

Not her savior.

Not her captor.

A violent, possessive bastard so addicted to her that I'd rather die with her in my arms than live another day without her.

I should want to keep her away from my darkness.

Then I watch her embrace it.

My captive becomes my accomplice. My weakness becomes lethal. And when I see blood on her hands for the first time, I know there is no sending her back to the innocent life she had before me.

I ruined her.

She ruined me worse.

And if loving Valentina is the sin that finally puts me in the ground, I'll die without a single f*****g regret.

This is the second book in the Poisoned Petals Series. Reading order:

Stolen Petals

Bloody Petals

Deadly Petals