Ruthless Lover

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>She hated me...in the most savage violent way. I deserved it all. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Her fists. Her rage. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>But I didn't deserve her love.  </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center>Leila Ivanov daughter to a dangerous Russian Czar is the perfect woman. </p><p class=ql-align-center>Smart resourceful stunningly beautiful with piercing blue eyes and a wicked smile.</p><p class=ql-align-center>But that's not why I wanted her. </p><p class=ql-align-center>I needed to find a way out of the mess I created. </p><p class=ql-align-center>A mess where the CIA came knocking on my door armed with information. </p><p class=ql-align-center>Information that was dangerous...<em>and</em> <em>could get me killed.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center>And I'd use the wrath of her family to escape it.</p><p class=ql-align-center>But amongst the deceit I found myself falling for her quiet perfection and her deep throaty laughter. </p><p class=ql-align-center>I found myself falling for her. </p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Until it was too late...</em></p><p class=ql-align-center>Those I'd been running from came for me...but they found her instead. </p><p class=ql-align-center>Now I'm staring at the bruises on her face and the betrayal in her eyes. </p><p class=ql-align-center>and I'm on my knees begging her to stay.  </p><p class=ql-align-center>I'll do anything. Pay any price. <em>Kill any man I had to</em>...even if it means my end. </p><p class=ql-align-center>Because a life without her...is no life at all. </p><p><br></p>