UNMASKED

His Identity Revealed. That Doesn't Make Her Safe. A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance.

De: Helena von Heilig, Scarlett Cross

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

She knows who he is now.

It doesn't help.

"Find out what Vasin is currently protecting. Not his assets. Something personal."

The masks are gone. The parallel worlds have collapsed. Elara knows that her boss and the man at the estate are the same person—and she stayed. Not because of the debt. She made sure he understood the difference.

But knowing the truth and trusting the man who hid it are two very different things. Nikolai's instinct is still to protect her by controlling what she knows. And the walls she took down for him? She can put them back up faster than he can explain.

Then Cassian Vale walks into Seattle.

British. Patient. The kind of man who's already decided what he wants before he opens his mouth. He has history with Nikolai—a deal that went wrong, a debt that isn't financial. He's looking for leverage. He finds Elara.

Here's the problem: Cassian isn't a villain. He's direct where Nikolai is guarded. Easy, where Nikolai is controlled. He meets her at a coffee shop and doesn't mention Nikolai once. He just listens. And when she doesn't show up next Thursday, she thinks about it twice on the way to a different coffee shop.

You're going to feel guilty for liking him. That's by design.

"That's how I knew she was the right lever. It's also how I knew she wasn't."

When Elara finds the anomaly in the shareholder data—the one Nikolai's entire team missed—she stops being someone who needs protection. She becomes a full partner in both his worlds.

Whether he's ready for that is a different question entirely.

For fans of: L.J. Shen, Rina Kent, and Katee Robert. If you like love triangles where there's no safe option, rebuild scenes you'll dog-ear and never admit to, and heroines who find the evidence before you do—this is your book.

Tropes: love triangle with real tension • masks off • trust rebuilt (painfully) • rivals with history • the other man is not a throwaway • BDSM without masks • she finds the evidence • corporate intrigue meets criminal underworld • possessive hero who has to learn to share

Content Note: Explicit sexual content, including the series' hottest scene (you'll know it when you get there—laughter is involved),light BDSM, a love triangle that will split your loyalty, organized crime, and a man who signs a settlement with a pen the reader has been tracking since the prologue. 18+.

Book 2 of 3. Do NOT start here—read Collateral first. The story concludes in Sovereign.