Overview

He didn’t want my father’s money as payment for his betrayal.

He wanted me.

Dante Moretti is the king of a violent, glittering underworld. He is a ruthless, cold-blooded monster in a bespoke suit. And I am the price he demanded for my father's sins—an artist traded like property to settle a blood debt.

He dragged me into his gilded cage, expecting to find a broken toy to play with. But even in his world of absolute power, my spirit refuses to shatter. My defiance fascinates him. My fear excites him.

And my body, the traitor, responds to the dark, cruel pleasure he teaches it in lessons of submission.

He is the monster I should hate, but his protection is a shield and his possessiveness is a twisted kind of worship. He decided to own my soul, not by breaking it, but by drowning it in a pleasure so profound it rewrites my reality.

Now, the only man I'm more afraid of than him is the person I'm becoming in his bed.

His Cruelest Claim is a standalone M/M dark mafia romance. This story features a possessive, morally grey anti-hero, an age gap dynamic, and themes of captivity and forced proximity that lead to a twisted, all-consuming love.