The Mortal Wound

MARGARITA

There was a time when my hands were meant to heal.

That woman is gone.

Now there is a price on my head, an army hunting us, and a loaded gun within reach wherever I sleep. Damon and I are running through a world of armored convoys, fighting pits, stolen weapons, and enemies who will never stop coming until one of us is dead.

But I am done being the woman Damon has to save.

He taught me how to survive his world. He taught me how to shoot. How to stop trembling. How to look at blood without looking away.

His greatest mistake was believing I would remain his captive forever.

I don't belong behind Damon anymore.

I belong beside him.

And when the man responsible for our war finally kneels before us, Damon won't have to pull the trigger.

I will.

DAMON

I once thought possessing Margarita would satisfy me.

I was wrong.

I watched my beautiful doctor trade her scalpel for a gun and become every dark thing she once feared. Now she walks through my empire like she was born for it, and I have never wanted anything more sinfully than the woman she has become.

The world put a bounty on her head.

So I will give it a war.

There is no safe house left, no clean escape, and no version of our future that doesn't end with blood. But Margarita isn't asking me to rescue her anymore.

She is loading the weapon beside me.

She was never meant to survive my darkness.

She was meant to rule it with me.

This is the third book in the Wounds That Run Deep Series. Reading order:

The Hidden Wound

The Open Wound

The Final Wound

250 pages. Kindle edition.