Rose sterling

BLOOD DEBT

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One look. That’s all it took.One alley. One crime. One moment of curiosity that put Ariella Navarro directly in the path of men who don’t leave witnesses.Damian Hale saved her life, then made it clear she didn’t belong in his world. But in a city where debts are collected in blood and favors come with consequences, walking away isn’t an option.When Ariella tears up a forged contract worth twenty thousand dollars, she becomes their liability. The penalty: forty-eight hours to pay, or her father’s $240,000 hospital debt becomes legally actionable. The underworld doesn’t forgive mistakes**.**Damian offers her a way out, but his help comes with strings she doesn’t fully understand. He’s precise, controlled, and dangerously competent—the kind of man who sees three moves ahead and never bluffs.Ariella should be afraid. Instead, she’s mapping his world.Because she’s learned something important: in Damian’s world, the most dangerous people aren’t the ones who threaten loudly. They’re the ones who move quietly and keep their promises.Now she has two days to beat a system designed to crush people like her. Two days to learn the rules of a game she never agreed to play. Two days to decide if trusting Damian Hale is survival or suicide.The clock is running.And when the clock runs out, the price is blood.

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