When I loved him

Zariah Sanders, though sheltered, was not naive that her family was tangled in businesses that weren't quite straight in the eyes of the law. But she managed to live a free life with luxury most only dreamed, private educations, college degree paid off and if she wanted anything her older brother was a phone call away. But when her family business hit too close to home and death made itself comfortable, Zariah is forced back home. Thrusted into the protection of a man who was known for being a brute, yet the gentleness in which he looks at her manages to awaken a fire in her she'd never felt before. As time went on one thing became absolute, she will not walk away untouched by this life or this man, Percy King.

Percy King had two rules in life: 1)never let the enemy know your weakness, 2) have no weakness. Those rules had kept him and his best friend alive in the business they ran. But when a war started brewing and the life of his best friend's sister is on the line, Percy steps in. What was meant to be a burden soon became something he cherished and can't live without. He'd never been a man to have anything bring him to his knees. But does he stand a chance at putting up a fight when everything In him wants to surrender? Especially when his taste of destruction comes in the shape of a beautiful strong minded woman, who is hell bent on putting herself in harms way for the people she loves.