Price of Betrayal (Calabrese Empire #2)

I thought I’d chosen the right monster. I was wrong. I’d chosen the most dangerous one of all.

Six months as Marcus Calabrese’s wife, and I finally understand what partnership means in our world. Shared power. Shared secrets. Shared enemies who want us both dead.

But partnerships require trust, and I’ve been keeping secrets of my own.

The intelligence network I built for survival. The escape routes I maintained for protection. The contacts who could provide safe passage if Marcus ever decided I was more liability than asset.

Insurance policies that seemed smart—until Marcus discovered them.

Now Aurora is dead, executed for betraying family secrets she learned from me. The coalition of enemies I’d been monitoring is moving against us. And Marcus is looking at me like I’m the threat he should have eliminated months ago.

“You can hate me for the betrayal, Marcus. But don’t pretend that what we built together was all performance.”

There’s only one way to survive the wreckage of my careful turn the betrayal that destroyed his trust into the weapon that saves us both.

Because Marina’s coalition thinks they’ve neutralized his greatest asset. They have no idea they’ve just created his most dangerous one.

Sometimes the best partnerships are born from the worst betrayals.