The Poison in Our Blood

ALESSIA

I stayed in Nikolai Volkov’s house.
I moved out of his room.
There is a difference.
And my husband feels every inch of it.
The lies are finally on the table now. The blood taken from me. The reason he married me. The poison my family created. The things Nikolai knew and decided I was better off not knowing.
His secrets broke something between us that desire refuses to bury.
But there is no time to mourn our marriage.
Because Nikolai’s younger brother is dying.
The same cold hands. The same failing body. The same poison.
While my blood keeps my husband standing, Yasha is running out of time, and somewhere between Brooklyn and Italy is the person who paid to put death inside the Volkov family.
So Nikolai and I work side by side.
Separate rooms. Shared files. Sleepless nights. Too much history. Too much hunger.
The deeper we dig, the uglier my family becomes.
Someone bought the Volkovs.
Now I intend to find out who.
Even if the truth destroys what is left of my marriage.

NIKOLAI

My wife still wears my ring.
She sleeps two floors below me.
And every few weeks, she sits in a chair and gives me the blood keeping me alive.
There are debts a man cannot repay with money. Alessia is every one of mine.
My brother is dying.
My wife is hunting the family that made it possible.
And for the first time in my life, there are problems in my own house that guns, money, threats, and obedient men cannot solve.
I know how to move millions before breakfast.
I know how to find a man who does not want to be found.
I know exactly what has to happen when somebody threatens my family.
What I do not know is how to undo fourteen months of deciding which truths my wife was strong enough to carry.
Alessia does not need another apology.
She needs answers.
So I give them to her one by one, even when every answer puts another weapon in her hand.
The trail leads back to Italy. To her father. To a contract written before either of us was born.
And to the person who has been paying for Volkov blood.
I married Alessia because I needed what was inside her veins.
Now she is the only person I trust beside me when we find the bastard who spilled ours.

This is the second book in The Poison in Our Veins Series. Reading Order:
The Poison in Our Hearts
The Poison in Our Blood
The Poison in Our Souls

344 pages. Kindle edition.