Length8h 16m
About this audiobook
There was a night, years back, when he could have walked. He did not, and everything since has been a payment on that one decision.
Rain. Not the clean kind that sluices off slate rooftops uptown, but the greasy salt-scoured kind that smells of diesel and dead fish and somebody else's bad decisions. It beads on the windshield of Dante's truck like sweat on a fever patient, and the wipers smear it into a film that turns the warehouse district into a watercolour of rust and shadow.
He kills the engine. The rain hammers the cab roof, a sound he has learned to ignore the way other men ignore their own heartbeats.
The warehouse looms ahead, a black tooth against a bruised sky, corrugated sides weeping rust-stained tears. A security light buzzes over the roll-up door and throws a puddle of jaundiced light across cracked concrete. Marco's sedan is already there, parked cockeyed like a dog marking territory.
He checks his phone. No word from Elena tonight, which is good. No word means a double shift at the hospital, which means money earned rather than money borrowed.
Julian is inside that building writing something he should not be writing, and neither of them has worked out yet how expensive that is going to get.
What follows: a debt he chose, a story being written in real time, a face he cannot forget, the man who hit first, a sister worth protecting, a paper trail, a lie told to somebody who deserved better, and an alliance neither of them wanted.
*You kept me in the dark for months. You lied to my face about where the money was coming from.*
*That's a stupid plan.*
*It's the only one we've got.*
Soft, careful, mindful of cracked ribs and bruises.
Dante will hand over the name, the ledger and himself. He will stand in a room full of men who own him and say it out loud. And the next person who puts a hand on Julian for any reason at all is going to leave that room in a considerably worse condition than they entered it.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Debt I Chose
2Chapter 2 - The Story I’m Writing
3Chapter 3 - The Face I Can’t Forget
4Chapter 4 - The Man Who Hit First
5Chapter 5 - The Sister I Protect
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6Chapter 6 - The Paper Trail
7Chapter 7 - The Lie I Told Her
8Chapter 8 - The Alliance I Never Wanted
9Chapter 9 - The Eyes That Follow Her
10Chapter 10 - The Question I’m Afraid to Ask
11Chapter 11 - The Trap I Set for Myself
12Chapter 12 - The Night He Came to Me
13Chapter 13 - The Blood on My Hands
14Chapter 14 - The Threat I Should Have Seen
15Chapter 15 - The Order I Cannot Refuse
16Chapter 16 - The Last Night Before the Fall
17Chapter 17 - The Price of Betrayal
18Chapter 18 - The Exchange I’m Not Ready For
19Chapter 19 - The Truth I Can’t Tell Him
20Chapter 20 - The Sacrifice I Wrote Myself
21Chapter 21 - The Hospital Where It Ends
22Chapter 22 - The Reckoning I Didn’t Want
23Chapter 23 - The Wire I Wore
24Chapter 24 - The Sentence I Choose to Carry
25Chapter 25 - The Letters I Write in the Dark
26Chapter 26 - The Visit I Almost Missed
27Chapter 27 - The Day I Walked Out
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Sabina Cross
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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