Cruel Tenderness

2 hrs. 36 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Samantha Jones

Narrator Antonina Malyshkina

Description

I moved to Novorossiysk to finish school properly.
But everything went wrong… I fell in love with the leader of a local gang.

A kiss by the garages stopped my heart. Daniil Shelest—my classmate from “Tsemis”—agreed to be my “fake” boyfriend to protect me from school queen Alice. But his harsh hands turned out to be unexpectedly warm when he tightly clasped my fingers…

I kept telling myself: it’s just a role. But the moment I first ran my palm over the scars on his arm and realized how much pain he was hiding inside, all the rules stopped working. Now I was afraid of losing the one I could have risked everything for—racing across the whole city, choking on air, falling, and scraping my knees until they bled, just to hurry and warn…

His life is brawls, the port, and the brutal laws of the streets. Mine is the sea-salty wind, sketches in a worn-out album, and the heat of his breath at my temple. We’re like people from different worlds. But one day I realized: I’ve been in love with Daniil Shelest for a long time. And if he chooses the dark, I’ll follow—straight into that abyss…

A sensational Yong Adult story by the author of “Be Silent, My Love!”