Bound By His Black Vow - A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance #981890

CALLAN
Love.
A pretty lie dressed in white.
A word people whisper when they want to believe the world is softer than it is.
I know better.
In my world, loyalty is purchased.
Mercy is weakness.
And marriage is never about the heart.
It is about territory.
Bloodlines.
Power.
So when Maren Wells is placed in front of me as payment for her father’s betrayal, I should see only a pawn.
A fragile little bride with trembling hands, innocent eyes, and a family name that deserves to burn.
But Maren is not what they promised me.
She does not beg.
She does not break.
And the more she looks at me like I am still a man beneath the monster, the more dangerous she becomes.
Because someone inside my own house wants her dead.
Someone in her family sold her with a smile.
And the secret buried between our bloodlines could destroy everything I was born to protect.
I should send her away.
I should hate her.
Instead, I put my ring on her finger.
And now every enemy I have will learn one brutal truth.
Touch my wife, and I will turn their kingdom into ash.

MAREN
Love.
I used to think it was gentle.
A safe place.
A promise spoken by someone who meant to stay.
Then my father traded me to Callan Brooks.
The coldest man in the city.
A mafia heir with blood on his hands, secrets in his eyes, and a heart everyone swears is already dead.
He does not want a wife.
He wants revenge.
And I am the perfect weapon.
I enter his mansion as a bride.
I become a prisoner before the wedding night ends.
Every corridor hides a warning.
Every smile carries a threat.
Every locked door whispers that the Brooks family is not the only one with sins to bury.
But Callan is not the monster I was told to fear.
He protects me like I belong to him.
Watches me like I am the one thing he cannot afford to lose.
And when I discover the truth about why our families became enemies, I realize our marriage was never meant to bring peace.
It was meant to start a war.
Now I have two choices.
Run from the man who may ruin me.
Or stand beside him when the whole city comes for my crown.