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Men like us, we see things. We do things, things that make us unfeeling. That's the price of power and money, of living la belle vie and running the French mafia. Then she came along like a pretty wildflower pushing through the cracks on a dirty pavement - fragile yet resilient, a breath of beauty among the filth.

Once upon a time, a thief stole me in the middle of the night. He took what he wanted, gave me an illusion, and ripped it all away to claim his ultimate trophy. My heart may be physically weak, but fighting to live made me stronger. I won’t perish as easily as that. I’m turning the tables on him. After all, I learned from the best. I’m robbing him of what he stole from me.

Ian Hart stole a night of my life, but he took so much more. His obsession pinned a label on me. His lust put me in an impossible situation. Now I have to choose sides. I have to decide between right and wrong. Only, no matter what choice I make, each comes with dreadful consequences. There’s only one way this can end - how every tragedy ends.

Six years ago, Harold Dalton framed me for theft and sent me to jail to steal my diamond discovery. He gave his daughter to Jack Clarke in exchange for the excavation rights. Today, I’m walking free, and I’m coming for him with a vengeance. Six years of cruelty make beasts out of men. I’m going to take back what he stole from me, and more. I’m not interested in his properties or shares. I don’t want his small change. I want his biggest asset. Beautiful, mentally unstable, Angelina Dalton-Clarke.

My love is wasted like gemstones in the dust, walked over by an oblivious shoe. It takes many suffering years and layers of mountains to squeeze carbon into a precious stone. Now that I’m polished and hard like a diamond, he doesn’t get to kick me back into the dirt. Men like him don’t love women like me. They don’t love. Period. But he made me. He’ll live with me. Because diamonds are forever.

Men like us, we see things. We do things, things that make us unfeeling. That’s the price of power and money, of living la belle vie and running the French mafia. Then she came along like a pretty wildflower pushing through the cracks on a dirty pavement - fragile yet resilient, a breath of beauty among the filth. She was supposed to be just another job, a nameless person I was to pluck from her life and hand to my brother, nothing but a pawn in the gamble of our diamond business.

Girls like me, we know how to survive. We each have our own little ways, but we acquire those skills at the same tender age. If you ask me how many times a person can die, I’ll tell you many times. As many times as a man stabs you in the stomach with betrayal and wrings out your heart with lies. Girls like me, we live. We don’t get a choice. We step over the cliff and fall. Eat, sleep, die, and repeat.

In einer kalten, dunklen Nacht hat mich ein russischer Mörder aus einer Gasse gestohlen. Ich bin gefährlich, aber er ist tödlich. Ich bin einmal geflohen. Er wird mich nicht ein zweites Mal entwischen lassen. Die Rache ist sein. Der Verrat ist mein.

Vor sechs Jahren hat Harold Dalton mich mit einem fingierten Diebstahl reingelegt und mich ins Gefängnis gebracht, um meinen Diamantenfund zu stehlen. Im Austausch für die Grabungsrechte gab er seine Tochter Jack Clarke. Heute bin ich ein freier Mann, und will meine Rache. Sechs Jahre voller Grausamkeiten machen aus Menschen Bestien. Ich werde mir das zurückholen, was er mir gestohlen hat, und noch mehr.

Zavir ist ein Wächter. Er ist der beste, den die Krinar haben. Seine Aufgabe ist es, die Widerstandsbewegungen, die sich auf der Erde bilden, aufzudecken und zu eliminieren. Neue Informationen über ein schnell wachsendes Widerstandslager führen ihn nach Costa Rica, wo sich die größte Siedlung der Krinar befindet.

Als die Studentin Valentina Haynes entdeckt, dass ihr Bruder bei dem gefährlichsten Kredithai in Johannesburg eine unmöglich hohe Summe Schulden hat, gibt es nur einen Weg, ihrer beider Leben zu retten: Sie muss Gabriel Louws Eigentum werden. Neun Jahre lang wird Valentina Gabriels Bedürfnisse stillen, egal wie dunkel und verkommen sie ist.

Once upon a cold, dark night, a Russian killer stole me from an alley. I’m dangerous, but he is lethal. I escaped once. He won’t let me do it twice. The revenge is his. The betrayal is mine. But so are the lies to protect the ones I love. We’re cut from the same twisted cloth. Both merciless. Both damaged. In his embrace, I find hell and heaven, his cruelly tender touch destroying and uplifting me at once. They say a cat has nine lives, but an assassin has just one. And Yan Ivanov now owns mine.

Als Gabriel meine Tür einschlug, übernahm er meinen Körper und mein Leben. Nie mit Gewalt, sondern immer mit geschickter Manipulation. Er hat mich meiner Unabhängigkeit, meiner Gegenwehr und meiner Kleidung beraubt und mich zu einer Süchtigen gemacht. Meine Sucht ist er.

Ich bin ein Kredithai. Leuten Knochen zu brechen, liegt mir im Blut. Die Haynes sollten ein einfacher Job sein. Reingehen und zweimal abdrücken. Eine Kugel für Charlie, eine für seine Schwester. Aber als ich Valentina sah, wollte ich sie. Nur in unserer Welt bekommen diejenigen, die uns etwas schulden, keine zweite Chance. Meine Mutter wird sie auf keinen Fall am Leben lassen. Also habe ich mir einen Plan ausgedacht, um sie zu behalten.

Zavir is a guardian. He's the best the Krinar has. His assigned vocation is to uncover the Resistance movements popping up around the earth and eliminate them. New information about a fast-growing Resistance camp sends him to Costa Rica, home of the largest Krinar Center. His informant is a human girl. She wants to make a deal - her traitorous family's lives in exchange for information - but Zavir doesn't make deals, and he takes no prisoners.

I'm a loan shark. Breaking people is in my blood. The Haynes were supposed to be a straightforward job. Go in and pull the trigger twice. One bullet for Charlie, one for his sister. But when I saw Valentina, I wanted her. Only, in our world, those who owe us don't get second chances. No way in hell will my mother let her live. So I devised a plan to keep her. It's depraved. It's immoral. It's dubious. It's perfect. Just like her.

When Gabriel broke down my door, he took over my body and life. Never with force, but always with clever manipulation. He stripped me of my independence, my defenses, and my clothes and turned me into an addict. My addiction is him. Once, I had dreams and a future. Now, I have fears, scars, and insatiable needs. I’m damaged beyond repair, but if I’m to survive the most dangerous man in Johannesburg, I can’t allow him to break me, because broken toys are destined for the garbage dump.

I stumbled across something I wasn’t supposed to discover. I saw something I wasn’t meant to see, and now I’m an alibi for a killer. He’s the most feared and powerful man in the New York underworld. I don’t have a choice but to do as he says. But he commands so much more than just my testimony.

My father never intended to honor his promise to marry me to the most despised crime lord in Corsica. He thought that handshake would be long forgotten. Until Angelo Russo shows up at my sixteenth birthday party and demands his due when I turn eighteen. A man to whom no one dares say no is determined to take what he considers as his, especially when he’s told he can’t have it.

Wir sind dazu bestimmt, uns gegenseitig zu vernichten, aber wir werden dieses Spiel zu Ende spielen, egal, wie lange es dauert oder was es kostet. In meiner Branche liegt jeden Tag der Geruch des Todes in der Luft. Aber es ist keine Kugel, die mich töten wird. Es ist Sabella, die Frau, die mir versprochen wurde, die Frau, die mich verraten hat.