It Breaks Me: Betrayal, Book 2

Six months is long enough to heal a broken heart—or so Scarlett tells herself.

She has done everything right. Buried the memories of her secret romance with Axel, rebuilt her walls, and kept her father's world mercifully free of his name. The betrayal that shattered her is behind her, and she intends to keep it that way. But when her father announces plans to cut Axel out of their business empire entirely, Scarlett knows exactly what kind of storm is coming. She warns him. He doesn't listen.

He should have listened.

Axel resurfaces like a man who has spent six months sharpening himself into a weapon. Cold, calculated, and devastatingly precise, he dismantles her father's power with terrifying efficiency and seizes the business for himself. Then he does something worse—he offers her father a way back. A deal. A price.

That price is Scarlett.

Now she finds herself bound to the man who broke her, forced into proximity with someone who is nothing like the Axel she once loved and everything like the ruthless stranger she should fear. The tension between them is electric and dangerous, pulled tight between old wounds and new fury. Scarlett is convinced she feels nothing but contempt. Axel is convinced he's only playing a game.

They are both lying.

This scorching romantic suspense sequel proves that the most devastating enemies are the ones who already know exactly how to destroy you.