Roses Over Ashes: Dark Mafia Romance

BELLA

I left Cassian once.

I told myself it was for my safety, for my sanity—but really, it was because loving him felt like drowning in smoke. I tried to move on. I let someone else's hands hold me, someone whose touch was soft instead of searing. But safety is a lie in our world, and the danger found me anyway.

Now Cassian is back, and he's not asking this time. He's dragging me deeper into the fire, into the hunt for my father's killer, into a game where my heart and my life are equally at stake. I tell myself I can still escape him. But I've always been better at lying to everyone else than to myself.

CASSIAN

I gave her a chance to run. She took it.

Now she's back in my reach, and I'm not letting go—not when my enemies know her name, not when she still tastes like the sin I can't quit.

This war started with her father's blood, and it won't end until I've gutted the man responsible. She'll be at my side when I do, even if I have to break her to keep her there.

She thinks I'm the danger. But the truth? I'm the only thing keeping her alive. And when it's over, she'll belong to me, completely.

This is the second book in the Wilt & Bloom Duet. Reading order:

Ashes Over Thorns

Roses Over Ashes