Honor and Claim by Lucy Darling

Cosima was a temptation I couldn’t resist.

I was born into blood and chaos. It raged inside of me, bleeding on everything around me after my parents’ death. The Marino family took me in as a young boy. They were a powerful family that tried to save me, but I was too far gone—until Cosima came along.
Even as a young boy, I knew she was different. I gave her my heart when we were kids, and it has always belonged to her, the girl who could cool the monster inside of me that was always fighting to get out.
As we grew older, the feelings I had for her changed. They became deeper and more obsessive. A new battle rose up inside of me, one no one could contain, not even my sweet innocent Cosima, so she ran.
I was shaped by the devil himself, and even though I would never be worthy of her, that didn’t mean I would ever allow anyone else to have her… or the secret baby growing inside her. That was mine too.
Little did she know there was no escaping me. No one could keep her from me, not her family, not her, or the man she was being forced to marry. I did what I had to.
Cosima belongs to me, and it’s time the world knows.