Innocent Intentions: A Dark Kidnapping Mafia Romance (The Syndicate Series Book 1)

She wasn't supposed to survive the night she saw his face.

When Sophia accidentally witnesses a Syndicate execution, she becomes the most dangerous loose end in organized crime's most ruthless empire. Nikolai Volkov doesn't leave witnesses. He doesn't negotiate. And he absolutely does not keep prisoners.

Yet here she is—locked behind gilded walls, sleeping under his roof, slowly unraveling every carefully constructed rule he's lived by for a decade.

Sophia knows she should fear him. The cold authority in his eyes, the violence that moves through him like second nature—every instinct screams that this man is her enemy. But captivity has a way of stripping pretense down to bone, and what lives beneath Nikolai's carefully maintained cruelty isn't what she expected to find.

He calls it protection. She calls it possession. The truth sits somewhere in the charged silence between them—in the way his jaw tightens when she laughs, in the way she stops flinching when he enters a room.

The Syndicate has rules about attachments. About weakness. About the kind of woman who could make a dangerous man second-guess everything he's built.

Sophia was supposed to be a problem to solve.

She's becoming the only one he can't walk away from.

*Some captors become protectors. Some enemies become everything. And some love stories begin with chains.*