Darkest Sins

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• Cenigh

  Finished June 9, 2026

  Kai is the epitome of an MMC with a tragic backstory. We saw him captured and tortured at the end of the last book. When he was finally rescued by his 'friends' all he could mutter was "tiger cub," which was his name for Nera. Kai thinks poorly of himself but is so sweet, so utterly devoted, and protective of Nera. His love for her is all encompassing since she first helped him. He is the type of MMC that would do absolutely anything for her. Nera was strong, kind, and protective. She did what she had to do. Your heart will break for Kai at times; he is enamored with Nera and never wants to hurt her, and even when he feels he can't be with her, he keeps watch over her. Theirs is a sweet though sometimes achingly painful love story at times. I just wanted to give Kai a big hug. “What I take, I keep forever,” he says with a wicked smile. Then, he buries himself all the way to the hilt. “I’m never going to leave you,” he says. “Even if I wanted to, I know I never could. I’ll be watching over you till the day I die, cub. And as long as I live, no one will dare touch a hair on your beautiful head.” I will fucking gut any man who comes within fifteen feet of what is mine.” “I’m going to buy us a house,” I mumble as I trail my lips down her neck. “And a few dozen acres of land around it so you can have your animals. No other people nearby. I hate neighbors and I don’t want any.” “Nothing on this earth would stop me from coming back to you, my tiger cub.” I slam my mouth to hers. “I promise.” She might not be mine anymore, but I’m still hers. And I will watch over her and make sure she’s safe until my last breath. I will fucking crawl if I have to. No one is harming my cub today. Or ever. For as long as I live. I was. Still am. Dead. I’ve been dead most of my life. The only time I’ve actually felt alive is for that short period I spent with her. All the days before and after, are a fucking wasteland. “Blood lost for you is blood well spent,” he says against my trembling palm. “Even when I was on the brink of madness, barely alive and unable to grasp where or who I was, I remembered you.” Not only do I still love you. I fucking live for you, tiger cub.” “Every breath,” he continues. “Every heartbeat. Every drop of my blood is yours. It has all been yours from the moment we met all those years ago. If you want it, I’ll carve my fucking heart out and lay it at your feet. It’s yours, and always will be.” “I didn’t know, cub.” A tear slides down his cheek. “I swear, I didn’t know. When I saw you there, rushing toward him, and realized what I had done . . . I wanted to die, Nera. I’d rather kill myself a thousand times than cause you the slightest anguish. But I didn’t know. The fucking barely literate bastard that I am, I didn’t even bother to read the bio of the target. Please, believe me. I didn’t know. I didn’t fucking know.” I close my eyes and drop my head, burying my nose in the crook of his neck. “Take my gun, cub. I’ll kneel before you, so you can shoot me in the head.” His voice sounds so broken, making me hurt from the weight of pain I can hear in it. “Sometimes, fate likes to play a harsh game with our lives,” I say into his neck while I run my palm over his braid. “I know you’d never intentionally do anything to hurt me.” “How could one forget the sole light in the miserable darkness of his life?” If any man dares to approach my cub to steal her from me, I’ll just snap his neck. “You are my reason for living, cub. And, in this life, I don’t need a signature or a ceremony to confirm that you’re mine. You are. And I’m yours, every cell of my body. Till my dying breath. And even when I perish, in whatever afterlife awaits.” He cups my cheek in his palm and bends his head so our noses are almost touching.

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