Cold as You: Dark Mafia Romance

ALESSIA

People think the hard part is surviving the monster.

They’re wrong.

The hard part is surviving after he becomes yours.

Because nobody tells you what happens after the vows, after the blood dries, after the war quiets enough for you to finally hear your own heartbeat.

Nobody tells you what happens when the man who once felt impossible starts feeling like home.

Nikolai built me rooms inside his life.
Space in his bed.
Space in his future.

And I hate how much I want to stay there.

But love doesn’t erase history.

It doesn’t erase scars.
It doesn’t erase fear.
And it definitely doesn’t erase enemies.

Someone wants to remind me who I used to be.

Too bad I’m not that woman anymore.

And if they think becoming his wife made me softer—

they’re about to learn I was dangerous long before I wore his ring.

NIKOLAI

Power never interested me.

Control did.

Control over outcomes.
Control over weakness.
Control over needing people.

Then she happened.

Alessia doesn’t ask for permission.
She breaks rules, rearranges my life, and looks at me like I’m something worth saving.

That alone should terrify me.

Instead…

I let her.

Because somewhere between protecting her and wanting her, I forgot where obsession ended and devotion began.

Now she walks through my house like she owns it.

My clothes.
My bed.
My patience.
My goddamn heart.

And if anyone thinks they can take that from me—

they better pray death gets to them before I do.

This is the fourth book in The Cold In Our Hearts Series. Reading Order:

Cold As Ice

Cold As Steel

Cold As Blood

Cold As You