Vow That Started a Reign: A BWWM Billionaire Bratva Bodyguard Romance with Forced Proximity

He was sent to assess a threat. He wasn't prepared to want the woman already holding it together.Grigori Bardin doesn't do promises. Six years protecting a Bratva boss taught him that loyalty is proven in silence, not words. When an old family debt calls him to Odessa, it's meant to be simple: assess the threat to a dying man's organization, secure the transition, go home.Instead he finds Sofia Kovalenko, running her father's shipping empire in every way that matters, while her brother collects the credit and a council of old men decides, without ever asking her, that a woman can advise but never lead.She didn't ask for a bodyguard. She asked for someone who might actually see her.Then Grigori breaks a lifetime's habit of silence and says, out loud, in front of the very men who've spent her whole life underestimating her, exactly who he's chosen to protect. It isn't a declaration of love, not yet. It becomes the spark that reignites a war neither of them saw coming, because Yelena Drozdova didn't survive a year in hiding by disappearing. She survived it by finding the next unstable throne, patient and precise, and Odessa was always going to be her next move.Now Grigori and Sofia stand between a dying empire and the one woman patient enough to steal it out from under a frightened, malleable heir. Sofia has spent twelve years proving herself invisible enough to be trusted, never visible enough to be believed. She's done waiting to be handed what she already earned.Grigori swore one vow already, to a family that took him in.He's about to swear another. This time, he intends to keep it in the open, whatever it costs him.Book Two in the Bratva Billionaires series. A bodyguard romance with forced proximity, an underestimated heroine finally claiming the throne nobody thought to offer her, and a silent hero learning that loyalty spoken out loud is worth more than a lifetime of quiet service.Perfect for readers who love: bodyguard romance, forced proximity, slow burn, morally gray family loyalty, strong heroines who refuse to be managed, Bratva and mafia romance