Ace of Shadows by Ava Gray

What’s worse than being hunted by the Mafia?

Being the reason they’re hunting you—

and not knowing why…

Look, I didn’t do anything wrong.

I was just doing my job.

Until I found the drugs.

Hidden inside the plane.

Then everything went wrong.

The crash. The fire. The screams.

I should have died with everyone else.

Instead… I woke up accused.

My father murdered.

My mother barely alive.

And the world calling me the traitor.

That’s when he found me.

Ruslan Zaytsev.

Cold. Controlled. A man who looks at me like I already belong to him.

He doesn’t rescue me.

He takes me.

He says it’s protection.

But his protection feels like a cage.

Everywhere else… survivors are being erased. One by one.

And when I try to run, he drags me back—

voice low, lethal, unshakable.

“You don’t get it yet, do you?”

I shake my head.

His grip tightens.

“You weren’t meant to survive that plane.”

Now I’m trapped between a war I don’t understand

and a man who refuses to let me go—

Because the truth is…

He wasn’t sent to save me.

He was sent to kill me.