Bound By the Christmas Vows

My father is Boston’s Pakhan.

Powerful. Merciless. Unforgiving.

And he just arranged my marriage—

to his most dangerous enforcer.

Dmitri Volkov.

Cold. Controlled. Sin wrapped in devotion.

He kills for my father.

But on Christmas Eve… he’ll vow himself to me.

A sacred Bratva wedding.

Blood vows. Candlelight. No escape.

He swears his promises are holy.

That once spoken, they can’t be broken.

But I’m already keeping a secret.

A heartbeat he doesn’t know about.

A truth that could damn us both.

Because when vows are lies,

love becomes a battlefield.

And when the cathedral erupts in gunfire,

my father dies in my arms—

while my groom bleeds at the altar.

Now blood stains the marble,

and the vows meant to save us…

might destroy everything we love.

This Christmas, when the echoes fade—

will our baby ever know the love of its parents…

or be swallowed by the war that made us?