Four years ago, Ruslan Baranov destroyed the woman who loved him.

He sent his own wife to prison for a crime she never committed. The brutality she suffered there stole her voice… and even her hearing. But prison was only the beginning.

On the day she was released, Ruslan’s enemies abducted her. For two endless months she was tortured, broken, and used until there was almost nothing left of the woman she once was.

They thought she would never recover.

They were wrong.

Four years later, she returns to Ruslan Baranov’s city—reborn from ruin, colder than ice, and driven by a single purpose:

Destroy his empire.

But the ruthless mafia king who once discarded her like nothing now falls to his knees before her, a knife trembling in his hand.

“End me,” he begs hoarsely. “Take my life if that’s what it takes. I have wronged you too deeply. Let my blood pay for my sins.”

He bows his head again and again, desperate for forgiveness.

She looks down at him without mercy.

First, she throws a set of papers at his feet.

“Sign the divorce.”

Her eyes remain as cold as winter as she adds,

“And understand this… even if I kill you with your own blade—
you will still never earn my forgiveness.”