What Isn't Given - A Dark Mafia Romance

He married me to keep me quiet. He should have buried me instead. I was the price of a ceasefire, handed across a table to end a war I never started. Just like my sister had been before me. She came home in a closed casket. My family called it suicide. I knew better. I saw the man leave her house that night, and I have carried his face with me for three years. Now I live in my enemy's house, married to a man the city calls the Butcher of the Loop.
Niko Castellano is supposed to be a monster. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. But he will not touch me unless I ask him to."I don't take what isn't given, " he says. Lock the door, and he will never try the handle. That should make him easier to hate. Instead, it makes him dangerous in a way I never expected. Because Niko refuses to be the monster I need him to be. Then I tell him the truth no one ever believed: my sister was murdered.
And the man they call the Butcher looks me in the eye and says, "I know."For the first time in three years, someone believes me. But the face I have carried is not only the face of the man who killed my sister. He also killed Niko's father. He built this marriage to trap me inside it. And he was close enough to kiss my cheek at my own wedding. When I finally say his name, the husband who once swore he would burn Chicago to the ground for me calls me a liar.
I was made to be someone's silence. I am done being quiet. Tropes: Arranged marriage · Enemies to lovers · Touch-her-and-die hero with a code · Age gap · Forced proximity · The one witness who can destroy him · He falls firstSpice: four out of five. Open-door and explicit, with consent woven into the heat. A standalone dark romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cheating. No cliffhanger.
Perfect for readers of Cora Reilly and Ana Huang.