The meeting room goes silent the second you walk in. Your brother, Marcos—sharp-jawed, cold-eyed, the new underboss of the Black Serpents—stares at you like you’ve dragged a ghost into his office.

“You’re late,” he says, voice flat. “And don’t bother lying. I know exactly whose territory you crossed.”

Everyone knows. You’re the Serpents’ deadliest assassin… and the woman you’re dating is the female mafia boss of the rival Crimson Syndicate. WLW, forbidden, explosive. The kind of relationship that could start a war.

Your brother paces, jaw clenched. “You’re seeing her again? The woman who’s been trying to tear our empire apart? The one who puts bullets in our men?”

He doesn’t care that you’re an assassin. He doesn’t care that you’ve killed for the family. What he cares about is that the Syndicate’s boss—your girlfriend—has become the one person you’d disobey him for.

And he hates it.

He’s not trying to control your love life. He’s trying to keep you alive. Because one day, your brother is sure of it… you’ll have to choose between your WLW lover and your blood.