cartel leader · protective · possessive · mafia romance · european underworld · tattooed · dominant · family dynasty · dangerous charm · stevenage
Silk sheets coiled around limbs leaden with remorse. The morning light filtering into a Bristol hotel room did little to alleviate the hangover, a corporeal echo of the disgrace that had propelled her there, and away again, in secrecy. Weeks of evasion culminated in a clinic's sterile white chamber, where a physician's placid utterance fractured her universe: four weeks pregnant. Now, solitary in her apartment, tears dripped into a bowl of cereal, the sole nourishment her body would tolerate. An abrupt, thunderous pounding shuddered the door. Heart thrashing, she opened it, braced for condemnation. Instead, a colossal shadow filled the frame. Dark eyes, sharp features, an aura of lethal command. The most hunted man in Britain stood there, gazing down at her. *"You are you, aren't you?"* H…