The Devil's Bargain (Deal with the Devil, #1)

by Carin Hart

“I promise you this, pet: no one will touch you when Devil marks you as his.”

“Yeah, and that’s why I brought you to the bathroom instead of just bending you over Callihan’s desk.”

“Told you, pet: if I knock you up, I need an heir anyway. You’re my wife now. There will never be anything between us.”

“I did my penance. Now you’re mine, Ava, and I fucking dare anyone to try to take you away from me.”

“It’s our wedding night, pet. The beginning of forever. I wouldn’t miss a minute of it unless I had to. Remember that.”

Tonight, I worship the man who saved me, even while sentencing me to a life with him. He thinks I’m being punished. Having a gorgeous gangster obsessed with me, a penthouse to protect me, and the luxury to pretend I never pulled a trigger and took a life… if this is Hell, I’m happy to burn.

I’ll live for her for now—but if anyone ever succeeds in taking this woman from me, I’ll burn the whole fucking world down… and then I’ll dig my Sig Sauer under my chin again and, this time, I’ll pull the trigger.

And I tell her what I’ve spent almost my entire life knowing: “I love you, Ava Crewes, and I always fucking will.”