A Piece of Your Heart

14 hrs. 18 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Emma Scott

Narrator Ilya Dementyev

Description

RONAN
From the very start, nothing good was ever meant for me. At eight, I lost my parents. I tried to erase the past, but it seemed to become part of me—forever.
The world around me felt like the underworld: ten years in foster families, cruelty, fights, rage. Nights packed with nightmares and pain.
Then Uncle Nelson appeared and, without saying much, took me in. He wanted me to fix up his crumbling little houses in Santa Cruz.
And I dreamed of a home where someone waits for you—and of a simple, normal life. But again I was left alone—unwanted, broken.
What could I possibly offer Shylo? Only a fragment of my own tortured heart. She wasn’t allowed to love me.
All that was left for me was one thing—to tame the fury seeping out of old wounds. And to pay for the past that was already dragging me down.

SHYLO
Reason, ambition, and creativity are how I keep myself afloat. I’m used to disappearing into jewelry work for days and nights, and I believed that someday I would be recognized. I liked building myself a new world—because there was no other way to survive when your birth mother despises you.
I wanted to give people shine and luxury, even though I myself had been drowning in my own darkness for a long time.
Who I truly was, and who my father had been—those questions stayed a mystery. Inside me, an enormous emptiness lived.
With Ronan’s arrival, I suddenly understood what I truly wanted: to have him completely, despite the abyss between us.
But even as I burned in that fire, I had no right to let myself become a captive of love.
Because the only way to become strong is not to open your heart…

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