Lethal Torture

<p>ZINAIDA</p><p><strong><em>My world is too dark for love. </em></strong></p><p>Which is exactly why Luke Macarthur is the wrong choice to protect me.</p><p>But I have a traitor in my house. And that means hiring from outside.</p><p>I expect him to turn down the job. I <em>want </em>him to turn it down.</p><p><strong><em>He'll have your back</em></strong>.</p><p>I hate how dangerously seductive I find those few words.</p><p>Sooner or later people either betray me or become a weakness to be used against me.</p><p>It's the price I pay for being Zinaida Melikov.</p><p><strong><em>So why doesn't Luke run the first time he sees what he's dealing with?</em></strong></p><p>But keeping a poker face for half an hour is one thing.</p><p>Living in the murky darkness of my world for months on end is quite another.</p><p>Luke Macarthur might well be the killer Mak says he is but he's also as wholesome as apple f***ing pie.</p><p><strong><em>And a wholesome man has no place beside damaged goods like me.</em></strong></p><p>There's only one way a good man like Luke leaves my world: in a body bag buried by forces much darker than he will ever be.</p><p></p><p>LUKE</p><p><strong><em>There's no way I should take this job.</em></strong></p><p>I don't sleep with clients. Ever.</p><p>And Zinaida Melikov is the most dangerous smokeshow I've ever laid eyes on.</p><p>But someone is definitely trying to kill her which is the kind of mystery I can't resist.</p><p>And I need danger the way some men need to breathe.</p><p><strong><em>She's a renowned psychopath.</em></strong></p><p>Except I know she isn't.</p><p>I saw her mask slip.</p><p>It was barely a split second the briefest loss of control.</p><p>Most men wouldn't have noticed.</p><p><strong><em>But I'm not most men. I'm trained to see what other men don't.</em></strong></p><p>And in that moment I saw past the dead eyes. Past the performance the mask and the game.</p><p>I caught a glimpse of the woman who lives behind the masquerade.</p><p><strong><em>And now I can't stop thinking about her.</em></strong></p><p></p><h5>Lethal Torture is the fourth book in the Lethal Legacy mafia romance series. Set in the high stakes international world of the Russian bratva it's a steamy action packed emotionally high charged romance taking place amid London burlesque clubs and Spanish villas. It's a standalone novel featuring characters from former books and relating to the world created in the Lethal Legacy series.</h5>