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Love is for people who don’t mind getting hurt. I vowed to never fall into that trap. I entered into war with my beautiful, corrupted, and dangerous husband. He warned me he always won. He told me I’d lose, but I didn’t want to believe him because there was too much at stake.

A deal sealed with a handshake promised she’d be mine. A broken vow ripped her from my future. I made unspeakable sacrifices to claim what rightfully belongs to me. After all the blood I shed in her name, the bond that ties us is hatred. The war cost us both dearly, but the price we paid won’t be in vain. I’ll never let her go.

Men like us, we see things. We do things, things that make us unfeeling. That’s the price of power and money, of living la belle vie and running the French mafia. Then she came along like a pretty wildflower pushing through the cracks on a dirty pavement - fragile yet resilient, a breath of beauty among the filth. She was supposed to be just another job, a nameless person I was to pluck from her life and hand to my brother, nothing but a pawn in the gamble of our diamond business.

Ian Hart is the most notorious criminal in the country. Like the thief he is, he came in the dark and stole a night of my life. He left me with souvenirs. Disaster and fear are my new realities. I’ll forever look over my shoulder, terrified he’d return, because when he took me, he stole more than just a few hours of my time. His crime has consequences neither of us could’ve imagined. If I’m to escape the nightmare of my life, I have to outsmart him.

Zavir is a guardian. He's the best the Krinar has. His assigned vocation is to uncover the Resistance movements popping up around the earth and eliminate them. New information about a fast-growing Resistance camp sends him to Costa Rica, home of the largest Krinar Center. His informant is a human girl. She wants to make a deal - her traitorous family's lives in exchange for information - but Zavir doesn't make deals, and he takes no prisoners.

Meine Liebe ist verschwendet wie Edelsteine im Staub, auf die ein unachtsamer Schuh getreten ist. Es dauert viele leidvolle Jahre und Schichten von Bergen, um aus Kohlenstoff einen Edelstein zu formen. Jetzt, wo ich geschliffen und hart wie ein Diamant bin, kann er mich nicht mehr zurück in den Dreck treten.

In my line of business, every day dawns with the smell of death in the air. But it’s not a bullet that’s going to slay me. It’s Sabella, the woman who was promised to me—the woman who betrayed me. We’re heading down a path of destruction, but there’s no turning back. At the first chance she gets, she’ll stab me in the back again. She’s a dangerous risk and a threat to my family. If I were wise, I’d eliminate that risk and leave her funeral to the sharks. I must be an idiot, because I’m going to finish what I started, no matter the cost.

No matter how hard I try, I can’t escape him. No one can keep me safe. Every year on my birthday, he brings me a gift, each one having a detrimental effect on my life with unimaginable consequences. With every gift he offers, he claims another one of my firsts. Before I know it, he’s taken control of my existence, turning me into a nervous wreck, because when I turn 18, I know what first he’ll come for next.

Ian Hart hat mir eine Nacht meines Lebens gestohlen, aber er hat mir so viel mehr genommen. Seine Besessenheit hat mir ein Etikett aufgedrückt. Seine Lust brachte mich in eine unmögliche Situation. Jetzt muss ich mich für eine Seite entscheiden. Ich muss mich zwischen richtig und falsch entscheiden. Aber egal, welche Wahl ich treffe, jede hat schreckliche Konsequenzen. Es kann nur auf eine Weise enden—so wie jede Tragödie endet.

Vor sechs Jahren hat Harold Dalton mich mit einem fingierten Diebstahl reingelegt und mich ins Gefängnis gebracht, um meinen Diamantenfund zu stehlen. Im Austausch für die Grabungsrechte gab er seine Tochter Jack Clarke. Heute bin ich ein freier Mann, und will meine Rache. Sechs Jahre voller Grausamkeiten machen aus Menschen Bestien. Ich werde mir das zurückholen, was er mir gestohlen hat, und noch mehr.

Mädchen wie ich wissen, wie man überlebt. Jede von uns hat ihre eigene Art zu überleben, aber wir erwerben diese Fähigkeiten im selben zarten Alter. Wenn man mich fragt, wie oft ein Mensch sterben kann, sage ich: viele Male. So oft, wie ein Mann dir mit Verrat in den Bauch sticht und dir mit Lügen das Herz aus dem Leib reißt. Mädchen wie ich überleben.

In einer kalten, dunklen Nacht hat mich ein russischer Mörder aus einer Gasse gestohlen. Ich bin gefährlich, aber er ist tödlich. Ich bin einmal geflohen. Er wird mich nicht ein zweites Mal entwischen lassen. Die Rache ist sein. Der Verrat ist mein.

My love is wasted like gemstones in the dust, walked over by an oblivious shoe. It takes many suffering years and layers of mountains to squeeze carbon into a precious stone. Now that I’m polished and hard like a diamond, he doesn’t get to kick me back into the dirt. Men like him don’t love women like me. They don’t love. Period. But he made me. He’ll live with me. Because diamonds are forever.

Angelo Russo came like a storm into my life and left destruction in his trail. The man who hates me beyond measure is the man who put a ring on my finger and gave me his name. My husband is my worst enemy. There’s nothing left to salvage from the wreckage of our lives. He married me to destroy me, and he did an outstanding job. He took my innocence and my virtue.

I never dreamed of getting married. I dreamed about freedom. When my stepfather promised Leon Hart a partnership in his clandestine software company, he offered me as part of the package deal. It’s a win-win situation for both men. My stepfather gets rid of his damaged stepdaughter, and Leon becomes second-in-command of the biggest underground IT operation in the country. I’ll do what I must to escape my fate. Even if it means turning my powerful and dangerous betrothed into my worst enemy.

Once upon a time, a thief stole me in the middle of the night. He took what he wanted, gave me an illusion, and ripped it all away to claim his ultimate trophy. My heart may be physically weak, but fighting to live made me stronger. I won’t perish as easily as that. I’m turning the tables on him. After all, I learned from the best. I’m robbing him of what he stole from me.

Ian Hart stole a night of my life, but he took so much more. His obsession pinned a label on me. His lust put me in an impossible situation. Now I have to choose sides. I have to decide between right and wrong. Only, no matter what choice I make, each comes with dreadful consequences. There’s only one way this can end - how every tragedy ends.

Girls like me, we know how to survive. We each have our own little ways, but we acquire those skills at the same tender age. If you ask me how many times a person can die, I’ll tell you many times. As many times as a man stabs you in the stomach with betrayal and wrings out your heart with lies. Girls like me, we live. We don’t get a choice. We step over the cliff and fall. Eat, sleep, die, and repeat.

Ich dachte, ich hätte alles verloren. Mein Leben lag in Trümmern, als ein Mann, der halb so alt war wie ich, in mein Haus einbrach und in meine Zukunft eindrang.

Die Gesellschaft sagt, ich sei zu jung für sie. Was weiß die schon? Es ist nicht mein Alter, das zählt. Es ist meine Erfahrung. Ich bin alles, von dem sie nie wusste, dass sie es braucht. Sie zu treffen war kein Zufall. Wie und warum sich unsere Wege gekreuzt haben, ist völlig verdreht und falsch, aber sie wird es nie erfahren. Ich nehme diese düsteren Geheimnisse mit ins Grab. Ich werde sie für immer behalten, egal, was es kostet.