The Devil You Begged For by Lucas Hunter

When her entire family is slaughtered in a single night, Camille Bianchi does the only thing that makes sense in the chaos: she runs straight to the one man she trusts completely, Dante Marchetti. He takes her in without hesitation. Promises to protect her, hunt down whoever did this, make them pay. For three days, his house is the only place in the world that feels safe. Then she hears him say it himself. “Did you kill my family?” “Yes.” He doesn’t even set down his glass. “It was necessary.” He says it so plainly, so without guilt, that for a moment Camille thinks she’s misunderstood. She hasn’t. Dante Marchetti, the man she ran to for safety, the man she’s trusted with her life for three days, ordered the massacre that ended everything she had. Now Camille is standing in the house of the man responsible, and she has two choices neither of which feel survivable. Run, and hope he lets her go. Or stay, close enough to find out exactly why her family had to die, and close enough to make him answer for it herself. But the longer she stays, the more she starts to suspect the story she’s been telling herself about her family isn’t the whole truth, and that Dante’s reasons might be a great deal more complicated, and a great deal closer to home, than a simple confession of guilt. Revenge is easy when the man responsible is a stranger. It gets a lot harder when he’s the only person who’s ever actually protected her, and the answers she’s digging for might destroy the last family she has left.