Thorn by Brooke Harper

They expected me to bend. To wilt.
But this rose has thorns too.
I have no family. No life. No dreams.
I have nothing left.
My father and Nikolai made sure of that when they made me a pawn in their mafia games.
A broken woman. A tainted bride. A bargaining chip. That’s all I am to them.
But things are changing.
I am changing.
Learning. Growing. Rising from the ashes anew.
At first, I didn’t understand what Nikolai woke in me when he used my body for his revenge plot. But now? Now, I have plans of my own.
He may think I’m his Rose to claim, to dominate, control, but I am a rose steeped in war and born from bloodshed.
It’s about time I live up to my name.