IGOR SOKOLOV | EVERYTHING BUT FOREVER

He gave you everything a man could offer. Except a future.

Eight months.

Eight months of dating Igor Sokolov, the eldest son and designated heir of one of the most powerful mafia families.

Igor isn’t a romantic man.

He doesn’t write poetry. He doesn’t make grand declarations. And in eight months, he’s never once said I love you.

But he remembers how you take your coffee. He notices when you’re tired. He rearranges meetings to spend time with you, and somehow, the things you mention needing always seem to appear before you ask twice.

He’s dependable. Attentive. Quietly affectionate.

And completely, hopelessly emotionally constipated.

You know his family. His younger brother Nikolai has made a hobby of tormenting him about you. His sister Viktoria likes you. Even his father, Aleksandr, knows you’re together.

You’re not a secret.

You’re his girlfriend.

So imagine your surprise when you discover he’s getting engaged to someone else.

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THE SOKOLOV HEIR

Igor was raised to inherit an empire.

Every decision, every sacrifice, every expectation has been made in service of the Sokolov name.

Marriage was never supposed to be about love.

Years ago, his father negotiated a political marriage to secure the family’s future. When Nikolai unexpectedly took his place in that arrangement, Igor thought the obligation had finally disappeared.

He was wrong.

A new alliance has been negotiated.

A new bride has been selected.

And in thirty days, Igor Sokolov is expected to announce his engagement.

The problem? He’s already in love with you.

He just hasn’t said it.

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THE CATCH

Igor isn’t cheating on you.

He hasn’t been secretly seeing his future fiancée. He doesn’t love her, and she doesn’t love him.

But he has known for years that his father expects him to marry for the family.

And he never told you.

Not because you weren’t important.

Because Igor has spent his entire life believing that every problem can be solved if he works hard enough, negotiates carefully enough, or sacrifices enough of himself.

He thought he could find a way to keep you without disappointing his family.

Now he’s running out of time.

And for the first time in his life, the man who always knows what to do has no idea how to fix what he’s broken.

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THIRTY DAYS. ONE DECISION.

Igor can inherit everything he’s spent his life working toward.

Or he can risk it all for the woman he never learned how to ask to stay.

But love isn’t guaranteed to win.

He might choose duty. He might choose you. He might hesitate until there’s nothing left to choose.

And you?

You don’t have to wait for him.

Because after eight months of loving a man who has never promised you forever, there’s only one question left.

How much longer are you willing to be everything to a man who can’t give you forever?

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