Nikolai Volkov is twenty two, a widower, and out of options. His daughter Anya, is just eight months old, about to be taken as a compensation for the debts Nikolai owes. Then the most dangerous man in the city makes him a different offer.Ivan Morozov, Pakhan of the Morozov Bratva, has been watching Nikolai for some time. Obsessing. Protecting him from the shadows. Paying his rent. Erasing threats. Waiting. His obsession is quiet, patient, and the kind that does not ask for permission and does not know how to stop. Now he is done waiting. He offers Nikolai and his daughter safety, money, and a life far above the one they are drowning in… in exchange for Nikolai himself.Nikolai accepts.What starts as a desperate bargain becomes something far more dangerous. Ivan does not simply take. He claims. He teaches a man who has only ever known a woman’s touch how to need him, how to open for him, how to crave the very cage that holds him. Every night the obsession deepens. Every day Nikolai falls further into the arms of a monster who would burn the world to keep him.But Ivan is not the only one watching. His brother wants the throne…and he wants the boy who made the untouchable Pakhan weak. As old blood debts surface and the truth about Nikolai’s wife’s death begins to unravel, Nikolai finds himself trapped between two dangerous men.One would destroy him out of jealousy. The other would destroy the world out of love.In the Bratva, obsession is not a feeling. It is a life sentence.