Nikola - Eva Winners

I was the dutiful daughter. Or, at least, that was what it looked like from the outside.\n Deep inside, I was suffocating. I longed for something I didn’t know how or where to find. But I kept my façade firmly in place while I searched for answers.\n Until one New Orleans’ night changed it all.\n Nikola Nikolaev—the heir to the Crescent City’s ruthless criminal empire—caught me in a club that was off limits. And just like that, my carefully constructed world began to crumble.\n We never saw it coming. The invisible force between us, the one that had a power far beyond anything we understood, pulling us closer, demanding what we couldn't give.\n But there was more to Nikola than the unhinged, reckless man everyone saw.\n I fell. Hard.\n He didn’t.\n I should've walked away. Instead