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She only went out for one drink.
Sasha Banks is a quiet literature student who spends most nights writing stories no one else reads and carefully keeping the world at arm's length. After an abusive past and years of polite distance, she's learned that soft hearts get broken. She isn't looking for anyone. Especially not the kind of man who makes an entire bar go silent just by existing.
Leon is older, dangerous, and wrapped in a darkness he never explains. The kind of man people instinctively avoid. The kind of man who looks at Sasha like she's the first soft thing he's been allowed to touch in years.
One Thursday night in a dim bar, she sits beside him anyway.
What starts as curiosity turns into late-night texts, careful dinners, and a slow, inevitable claiming. Leon doesn't just want her. He needs the world to understand she's his. And Sasha, for the first time in a long time, doesn't run from the intensity.
She leans into it.
You're Mine, Sweetheart is a dark, possessive, slow-burn romance about a lonely campus girl and the dangerous man who chooses her - thoroughly, quietly, and without apology.