Terms and Consequences (Conditions and Consequences #2)

Prologue

I used to think the Romanov name was the only thing protecting us.

I was wrong. It was the target on our backs.

After everything Nikolai had endured—the sorrow, the tears, the scars he still tried to hide—he still looked at me like I was his safe place.

He believed we were finally free.

But survival in this family isn’t a single victory; it’s a war of attrition.

And if they thought they could use him to break me a second time, they were about to learn what I was truly capable of.