Brutal Heir

She came to heal the monster. Instead, she woke the man beneath.

Alessandro
They say I should’ve died in that explosion.
Maybe I did… because the man staring back at me in the mirror sure as hell isn’t the heir to the Gemini empire anymore.
He’s a scarred, savage thing held together by pain, rage, and a hunger for vengeance.
And now they’ve sent her, this fiery, foul-mouthed redhead with zero self-preservation to babysit me.
I should hate her.
But the longer she stays, the more her hands aren’t just stitching up my wounds…
They’re breaking through my armor, awakening a fire I swore was dead.
And if I’m not careful, I’ll end up dragging her into my bed and into my darkness.

Rory
All I wanted was to disappear.
Start over. Stay hidden. Keep breathing.
I didn’t plan on becoming the live-in nurse to the most dangerous man in Manhattan.
Alessandro Rossi is angry, wounded, and lethal.
Even half-broken, he could end me with a word.
But I see what’s behind the scars—the monster everyone fears and the man no one else knows.
I should run.
But the thing about running from monsters?
Eventually, you stop being afraid of the dark.
And worse, you start craving it.