Beneath the Black Crown

I saved him when I should have run.

In a city ruled by gangs and gunfire, Raven Cruz is not a man you fall in love with.
He is the kind of man people fear.
The king of the streets.
The boy who learned how to kill before he learned how to love.

And yet, he chose me.

Pulled into a world of blood, loyalty, and violence, I learned the truth too late-
loving him was never safe.
Leaving him was never an option.

Because Raven doesn't love gently.
He loves like a war.
Like a curse.
Like something that will destroy us both.

They say no one survives beneath the black crown.

But I was never meant to.