Sabrina_Iosif
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He will possess her.
She will consume him.
Neither of them will survive unchanged.
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▫️TITUS▫️
I don't believe in love. I believe in ownership.
The moment I saw her, I knew. Not because she was beautiful, though she was. Not because she was forbidden, though she was that too. But because something in her eyes matched something in mine. A damage that doesn't heal. A fire that doesn't die.
She thinks she can run from me. From what I am. From what I want to do to her, for her, because of her.
She's wrong.
I will never let her go. I will tear apart anyone who tries to take her from me. I will burn down empires and paint the streets red with the blood of every man who ever made her afraid.
She is mine.
She just doesn't know it yet.
And when she finally understands, I will spend the rest of my life making sure she never regrets it.
But first, I have to keep her alive.
▫️VALENTINA▫️
I've spent my whole life running from men like him.
Men with power. Men with money. Men who look at you like you're something to be owned, to be used, to be broken and discarded when they're done.
My husband is one of those men. He is the reason I took my son and ran away. The reason I sleep with one eye open and a gun under my pillow.
And now there's Titus Minetti.
He is everything I should hate. Everything I should fear. He moves through the world like it belongs to him, like people are just pieces on a board he controls. He watches me with those dark eyes that see too much, that strip away every layer of armor I've built.
I don't trust him.
I can't trust him.
But when my husband finds me, and he will, he always does, I know who will be standing between us. I know whose name will be on my lips when I scream for help.
Titus says he'll protect me. Says he'll keep me safe. Says he'll never let anyone touch me or my son.
The terrifying part isn't that I believe him.
The terrifying part is that I want to.
[Book 3 in the Sins of