What She Deserves

Savannah Parker was raised to be perfect. Perfect daughter.Perfect girlfriend.Perfect golden girl. She learned young that appearances matter more than truth. That you smile when you want to scream. That you wear the dress your mother approves of, date the boy who impresses your father, and never, ever let anyone see the cracks in the perfect picture you’ve built. But cracks don’t stay hidden forever. After everything that happened with Jordan — the lies, the blood, the trauma that dragged her and her best friends into Dante’s dangerous world — Savannah has done everything she can to hold it together. She’s back at college, back with her picture-perfect boyfriend, back to pretending. But when she comes home for summer break, she realizes the truth: The life she’s been fighting for isn’t her life at all. And the one man who sees that? The last man she should want. Jorge Alvarez doesn’t play games. Second-in-command to Dante’s newly claimed syndicate, Jorge knows his role: keep order, protect what’s his, and leave the messy emotions at the door. He’s lived too long in a world where weakness gets you killed. He has no time for soft smiles or spoiled girls who flinch at the first sign of blood. But Savannah? She’s different. She’s soft, yes. Polished, yes. But underneath the perfectly curated exterior, Jorge sees a fighter. Someone furious at the cage she’s been living in. Someone who might be brave enough to burn it down. And it terrifies him. Because Jorge knows what happens when girls like Savannah touch fire, they get burned. And the worst part? He’s not sure he’d let her go, even if it meant saving her. When a dangerous piece of OM3N’s old network resurfaces — a black-market weapons cache that threatens to undo everything Dante built — Jorge is tasked with getting it back before it falls into the wrong hands. And unfortunately for him, Savannah has the one thing he needs: access. High society connections. Invitations to the exclusive auction where the weapons will be sold. A name that opens doors, Jorge could never walk through alone. Savannah agrees to help, if only to prove to herself — and everyone else — that she’s not the fragile little doll they think she is. But being Jorge’s cover means long nights, close quarters, and the kind of dangerous proximity that makes it impossible to keep pretending she doesn’t want him. And when bullets start flying, masks start cracking, and the lines between them blur, Savannah will have to decide: Will she keep being the girl who does what’s expected of her? Or will she finally claim the life — and the man — she truly deserves? What She Deserves is the second book in The Deserve Series — a dark, high-stakes romance about a golden girl who refuses to be caged, a soldier who refuses to break, and the dangerous world that forces them to choose between survival, love, and the future they’ve both been too afraid to want. She’s been perfect for everyone else. Now, she’ll be real for herself. And for the first time, she’ll get what she deserves.