His Ruthless Deception: A Grumpy Sunshine Mafia Romance (Bratva Brotherhood Book 2)

A kindergarten teacher shouldn't be the most dangerous assignment of a Bratva enforcer's career — and yet here he is.

Dimitri is the Kozlov Brotherhood's most feared enforcer, a man built from shadows and violence. His orders are clean and simple: locate the $20 million in diamonds stolen from the Pakhan fifteen years ago, now somehow traced to a soft-spoken schoolteacher named Chloe. Surveillance only. No complications.

Then he walks into Parent-Teacher night and meets five feet of relentless sunshine who somehow dismantles fifteen years of carefully constructed walls in a single conversation.

Chloe is warmth personified — bright, guileless, and completely incapable of the cunning it would take to hide stolen Bratva merchandise. Every instinct Dimitri has says she's innocent. But a rival faction is closing in on her fast, and innocence won't keep her alive.

When the mission shifts from surveillance to protection, Dimitri tells himself it's strategy. That pulling Chloe into his world is necessary. That the hunger burning through him every time she turns that devastating smile in his direction is nothing more than a complication he can manage.

He's wrong on all counts.

Set against the brutal glamour of the Bratva underworld, *His Ruthless Deception* is a grumpy-sunshine dark romance that burns slow and explodes fast.