His To BreakUpdated at Mar 26, 2026, 02:43
NIKOLAI
She shows up in my life looking like she hasn’t slept in years and pretending everything is fine. It’s not. I can see it the second she flinches when someone moves too fast.
Blair works in my world but she doesn’t belong in it—she’s scared of something she won’t talk about, and the more time I spend with her, the more obvious it becomes that she’s not safe anywhere she goes.
Then she turns up injured. Still lying. Still covering for whoever hurt her.
I take her home because she won’t take care of herself. I feed her because she forgets to eat. I watch her because someone needs to.
I didn’t plan on getting involved.
But someone is using her, controlling her, scaring her into silence.
And the minute I figure out what’s actually happening to her, I’m not stepping back.
I’m the only one who’s noticed—
and I’m not letting anyone break her again.
BLAIR
I don’t want Nikolai involved. I didn’t want anyone involved.
I’ve spent years dealing with things on my own—pain, threats, being pushed around, being told I owe things I never owed.
All I’ve ever done is survive it.
But Nikolai doesn’t buy the act. He notices everything: the bruises, the limp, the panic, the excuses I keep giving. He keeps asking what’s wrong, and I keep lying because telling the truth would pull him into something he shouldn’t be anywhere near.
The problem is I feel safe with him, and I haven’t felt safe in a very long time.
I want the way he looks at me.
I want the way he protects me without demanding anything back.
But if he finds out what I’ve been dragged into, what I’ve been forced to do, what I’m running from… he won’t walk away.
And the last thing I want is someone else getting hurt because of me.
He shouldn’t want me.
He shouldn’t touch me.
He shouldn’t drag me into a world just as violent as the one I’m trying to escape.
But when he stands in front of me, all tattoos and danger and soft, unexpected mercy…
I feel something I haven’t felt in years.
Hope.
And that’s the most terrifying part.
Because men like him don’t save girls like me—
They break for them.
This is book is part of the His to Claim Duet. Reading order:
His To Break.
His To Keep.