Beautiful mistakes

Amari has always been the quiet girl. A high school senior, she spends most of her time focused on graduating and staying out of trouble. She never imagined that someone like Mikhail Volkov would notice her.

Mikhail is the kind of boy everyone fears but no one dares to confront. Handsome, charming, and dangerously persuasive, he knows exactly how to make Amari feel safe-until she belongs to him.

The warnings come immediately.

"Stay away from him."

"He's not who you think he is."

"He's dangerous."

Amari ignores every one of them.

As the weeks pass, Mikhail's mask begins to slip. He demands to know where she is at every moment, decides who she's allowed to talk to, and explodes whenever she disagrees with him. During arguments, he grabs her hard enough to leave bruises, shoves her when she tries to walk away, and later apologizes with expensive gifts and promises that it will never happen again.

It always happens again.

Then Amari discovers the truth: Mikhail is the son and future heir of one of the country's most feared mafia bosses. Raised in a world where violence and intimidation are normal, he believes love means ownership and that no one has the right to take Amari away from him.

The abuse becomes impossible to ignore. Every attempt to leave is met with threats, intimidation, or another violent outburst. Her friends beg her to leave. Her family pleads with her to run. Even strangers can see the fear in her eyes.

But by the time Amari realizes everyone was trying to save her, she's already trapped in a life ruled by Mikhail's obsession-a world where escaping him may be the hardest fight of her life.

She thought she had fallen in love.

Instead, she had fallen into the hands of someone who believed that if he couldn't control her, no one could.