When Ivan becomes dissatisfied with his performance, he makes him enter the Bratva’s “training program,” leaving Ana behind without an explanation.

We meet Kostya and Anastasia at the ages of 15 and 13, respectively.Ī hulk of a boy, Kostya is forced, by his father, Ivan, to fight in an underground circuit. I took her in the middle of the night and kept her locked up until she realized she was mine and mine alone. So when she was forced to marry another, I did the only thing that made sense. I was carved out from the very devil himself, and although I would ever be good enough for Anastasia, that didn’t mean I’d ever let anyone else have her. And so I followed her, watched her through her bedroom window, broke into her apartment, and held her as she slept. Now, ten years later all of humanity had been stripped from me, all the emotion and empathy that I’d once felt taken away until I was nothing more than the beast who craved blood and had far too many kills tallied up.īut they could never take her away from me. She was the only one who could look at my bruises and wounds and see I wasn’t a total waste of space.īut I was ripped away from her, thrust into the underground world of violence and fighting, molded and shaped to be the ultimate killing machine for the Bratva.

She was the only good and right thing in my painful, brutal life. From USA Today bestselling author Jenika Snow comes a new full-length standalone dark mafia romance set in the Underworld Kings world.Įven the beast could get the beauty… he just had to take her.īut that didn’t stop a bond, a friendship to form between us.

Corruption by Jenika Snow