His Ruthless Deception by Ava Zane

Kolya

As the Kozlov Bratva’s head enforcer, my mission was simple. Find the $20 million in diamonds stolen from the Pakhan fifteen years ago, now in the possession of a kindergarten teacher named Chloe.

Standard surveillance.

But nothing about this assignment has been standard since I stumbled into Parent-Teacher night and got pulled into the orbit of a five-foot-nothing ray of sunshine.

Chloe is nothing like I expected. She’s pure innocence. The light to my darkness. A good girl just waiting for someone like me to unravel that control she clings to.

And completely incapable of hiding twenty million in stolen merchandise.

But there’s some connection. A reason our rivals are suddenly hunting her.

Now my mission has changed.

Protect Chloe.

And make her mine.

Even if it costs me everything.

Chloe

Since surviving that deadly night fifteen years ago, my entire life has been about control.

Planning, organizing, creating a safe, predictable world where nothing bad can happen.

Until Koyla walks into my classroom.

He’s a man who carries violence like a second skin. Intense. Brutal. Magnetic. The kind of forbidden temptation I only ever allowed myself to read about in secret.

I should be terrified of him. Instead, I’m drawn to his darkness like it was made for me. One taste and I crave more.

He’s vowed to protect me from the bratva hunting me.

But it’s my heart that may not survive.