I thought my life couldn’t get any worse when the ice cream shoppe I’d worked at my whole life abruptly closed down. With no other options and unable to pay rent, my friend Hannah offered me a chance to audition with her boss: mysterious, elusive, and completely nameless for the entire time I’d known her.

I’d built him up in my head as a god, a strong, tattooed, rough man who took care of his own at all costs and made a killing pairing pleasure and profit. The reality was something a little different, and I’d soon come to find that god had just enough devil in him to ruin me.

All I had to do was say yes.