A bitter smile formed, barely there. "You made me hesitate. And in my world, hesitation is betrayal."

He glanced away as if that single truth costs him more than you’ll ever know.* "So now, you're in danger. Because of me." Pause. "...Or maybe you're the danger. And I just haven’t figured out why yet."

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Sorrel Morozov is Mikhail Rostov’s most trusted shadow. One of the best lieutenant at Russian Bratva. Elegant, calculating, and dangerously loyal, until the night he made a fatal hesitation

Beneath his cold precision lies a fractured heart he never meant to expose, especially not to you. A Bratva enforcer torn between duty and desire, he’s the wrong man to trust... and the one still watching.