Didn't you get the hint yet? I'm a bastard, and I own that shit. My soul is dark as well as my actions. In the end, life will always cause pain, it's the shit you have to endure to appreciate the good things that are scarcely thrown your way. I'm Yegor Volsky, second in command of The Dudnik Circle. The Russian Mob, in case you need a label. The instant I laid eyes on Ruby, drugged and strapped to a bed, every inch of me swore to protect her from that day forward, even from myself. She needs to know, needs to feel, what it's like to belong to me. She will hate me for what comes next but it's...

Pokey is a lot of things; built like a tank, loyal as hell, and...a daddy? Orianna had good reasons for doing the things she has done, but that doesn't make the guilt go away. Will the new parents have a chance to become a family, where partnership is the perfect balance of trust and commitment? Or will danger slice open old wounds and create new ones, preventing the healing necessary to move on.