The Widow Who Wouldn't Mourn: A Dark Russian Mafia Romance: 4

I signed the contract at my husband's grave. The table hasn't forgiven me for it.INÉSThirty-one trucks, a loan that clears in November, and a dashcam card with forty seconds missing from the morning Rafael died.The Italian families' table calls me the widow who wouldn't mourn. They want my berth, my trucks, and a signature on a page I've refused twice.Then the table sends a Russian to sit in my cab.He doesn't talk. He doesn't touch. He watches the mirror so I can watch the road, and he says the weight back to me when I ask, and he's the first thing in six weeks that isn't ballast.I don't say things twice. I'm going to find the man who came up on my husband's left at four forty-nine.And I'm going to find out what I'm carrying.DMITRIEleven years in a car behind the Pakhan. Two years without touching anyone. I see everything through a lens, and I've never once been in the frame.Maksim placed me in her yard to observe. Page nine. Nothing else.She reads her gate by hand. She sleeps in a dead man's truck. She goes left on the grade when a truck comes up behind her, and she never, ever looks back.I'm supposed to watch her for thirty days.I'm going to leave the wall for her instead.Tropes: Dark mafia romance, Russian Bratva Widow heroine who refuses to grieve on schedule Bodyguard / observer forced into her cab He watches everything, she counts everything Touch her and answer to the table Slow burn that breaks at 2 a.m. in a truck A heroine who never needs saving Guaranteed happily ever afterThis is a dark romance. It contains the death of a spouse before the story opens, grief, organized crime, violence, a deliberate car collision, threats against the heroine, and explicit intimacy between adults. All intimacy in this book is consensual. 18+.Vows of San Pedro, Book Four of a dark mafia romance series. Every book follows a different couple and reads as a standalone.