SACRED SCARS: A Dark Mafia Assassin MM Romance Book 2 (ICE AND OBSESSION #6)

Three years ago, I was sent to destroy him. Instead, he destroyed me.

DANTEMy orders were simple.

Infiltrate The Shepherd's organization. Get close to his son. Extract information. Eliminate the target.

I'd done it a hundred times before. Different faces. Different lies. Same ending.

But Mikhail Volkov wasn't supposed to be different.

He wasn't supposed to look at me like I was human. Wasn't supposed to make me laugh at his terrible jokes. Wasn't supposed to touch me like I was something worth saving instead of something designed to kill.

For three months, he was mine.

Late nights and stolen kisses. Whispered confessions in the dark. A love I was never supposed to feel.

Then my handler gave me the order. Complete the mission. Kill his father. Walk away.

And I had to choose.

The job that made me. Or the man who made me human.

I chose wrong.

And it cost us everything.


MIKHAILThe stranger who walked into my father's restaurant changed my life forever.

Daniel Cross. Military background. Killer smile. Eyes that were dead until they landed on me—then suddenly, terrifyingly alive.

I should've known better. Should've seen the danger. Should've run.

Instead, I fell. Hard. Fast. Completely.

For three months, he was everything I'd never let myself want.

He told me I made him feel real for the first time in twenty years. Told me he'd never felt this before. Told me he loved me.

Then he cut my throat and walked away.

Left me bleeding on a warehouse floor while my world shattered around me.

I survived. Barely.

But the man I was died that night alongside my trust, my hope, my ability to feel anything except rage and emptiness.

For three years, I've been waiting. For answers. For revenge. For closure.

For him to come back so I can figure out if I want to kill him or save him.

Maybe both.


THIS IS HOW WE FELLBefore the reunion in Sanctified Sin. Before the warehouse confrontation. Before the impossible choices.

This is where it started.

The first meeting. The slow seduction. The three months when an assassin learned to love and a mafia prince learned to trust.

And the night that destroyed them both.