Preface
Bratva Queen (Rewritten)
Nikolai-Aleksandr Vasiliev.
If you know that name—run.
It means you’re already marked.
To most, he’s not known by his birth name. He’s simply called Король—The King. And when the King of the Russian Bratva sets his sights on you, there’s no salvation. No mercy. No grave deep enough.
Some fear the Italian Mafia.
They clearly haven’t met the Russians.
The Bratva doesn’t play by rules—they burn the rulebook and bury it in blood. And at the top of that merciless empire stands Nikolai. Cruel. Unforgiving. Silent. A man known for killing without a flicker of emotion. He’s executed women for merely brushing against him, slaughtered entire bloodlines without hesitation. He doesn’t speak. He doesn’t allow touch. He lurks behind shadows and steel, surrounded by ghosts wearing the faces of his loyal.
They say he has no soul.
But once… he did.
He had a weakness—one fatal flaw in his otherwise impenetrable armour.
A woman.
The only person he ever spoke to. The only one he allowed to touch him. The one he killed for. The one he would die for.
His light in a world soaked in darkness.
His heartbeat.
His Queen.
Five years ago, on the third anniversary of their union, their New York mansion exploded. Nikolai had just left the office, ready to sweep his beloved away for a weekend of stolen peace, when the call came—the call he’d always feared.
He raced home.
But it was already too late.
The house was in flames. The walls collapsed in on themselves like a dying beast. Nothing remained. No trace of her body. No scent of her perfume. Just ash, and death, and silence.
And from that silence, something monstrous was born.
Whatever good was left in Nikolai Vasiliev died that night.
And the King declared war.
One by one, he dismantled the world.
The English. The Italians. The Greeks.
Each fell beneath his blade, his vengeance an unrelenting tide of fire and blood.
Now, the hunt has brought him to the Americans—the final piece of the puzzle.
But not everything is as it seems.
“Moya Koroleva, nakonets-to solntse snova vzoshlo...”
My Queen. Finally, the sun has risen again.
His voice is a whisper—low, reverent, like a prayer made flesh. His storm-grey eyes devour every inch of me as if he’s afraid I’ll disappear again. As if I’m a ghost he’s chased through hell.
And in his gaze, I see it.
Recognition. Relief. Ruin.
Like he’s found the missing piece of his soul… and doesn’t know whether to worship it—
or break it to make sure it’s real.
