He calls me his storm... He just forgot storms don't obey kings. I needed to get his attention, so when the hospital asked if they should notify someone, I said,
"Yeah, call my husband. Tell him Temporale. His name is Stephano Conti."Since I knew he wasn't married, it was sure to get his attention.
I wasn't dragged into this world.
I was
born into it.
Bratva blood. My father's favorite assassin. His sharpest secret.
Stephano Conti is the son of an Italian king, heir to an empire built on betrayal. He should've been my target, not my salvation. But one shared secret turned into a mission neither of us could walk away from. Now we're hunting his believed dead brother, and unravel the conspiracy that could drown both our families.
He calls me
zhena.I call him
marito.Wife and husband by name, enemies by nature.
Together we steal secrets meant to stay buried, trade bullets for vows, and blur the line between devotion and destruction. When we finally find the truth, I'll have to decide whether to keep the title of wife-or make myself a widow.
Because loving a man like Stephano Conti isn't a fairytale.
It's a contract signed in blood.
RUTHLESS KING is a dark, high-voltage mafia romance about a fake marriage born of lies and obsession, a Bratva assassin who becomes her
husband's obsession, and a love powerful enough to turn vengeance into the storm of the century.
