His to Claim by Kat Steele

I pressed my hands against his wound to keep him alive.

He decided that meant I belonged to him.

I save a stranger’s life in a freezing alley. I don’t know he’s a king.

I’m a trauma surgeon. I live by control. I walk into chaos, stop the bleeding, and walk away. Detached. Steady. Untouched.

Until the night I kneel in blood and press my hands against a dying man’s wound while he looks at me like I’m the only thing keeping him alive.

I tell myself I’ll never see him again.

I’m wrong.

Kiren Sovarin doesn’t ask for gratitude. He doesn’t thank me. He doesn’t walk away.

He watches.

He protects.

He removes threats before I even know they exist.

He tells me I saved his life like that makes me his.

I should run.

Instead, I fall.

But loving a man like Kiren means stepping into a world where power is taken in blood and loyalty is tested in fire. His empire is cracking from the inside. Enemies don’t just circle — they sit at his table.

And when they can’t reach him, they reach for me.

Then everything changes.

A pregnancy I never think I’ll have.

A child conceived in the middle of a mafia war.

A future that terrifies me more than the bullets ever could.

What should make us stronger begins to expose the fractures between us. Secrets surface. Loyalties twist. And I start to realize that not everything in Kiren’s world is what it seems.

Not every ally is loyal.

Not every truth has been told.

And not every danger comes from outside his empire.

I save lives for a living.

Now I have to protect one.

In a world where betrayal is fatal, and love is the most dangerous weakness of all, I stand beside a king who would burn cities for me.

The question is whether our love survives the fire.