What the Interrogator Kept - Age Gap Bratva Romance

What the Interrogator KeptInvestigative journalist Zorana Veltri has spent fourteen months building a case against one of Latvia's most dangerous freight operations. Then, on a Riga street at dusk, she gets into a car she probably shouldn't.The man waiting for her at the end of the drive is not what she expected. Tiberan Vash does not threaten her. He does not lock her in. He simply sits across from her in a study full of her own annotated work and asks questions she does not know how to refuse.He has been reading her for three years. He knows where her sourcing is thin. He knows which month she is not being honest about. And he knows about the name in her field notebook, the name she has not yet published, the name that could bring everything she has built crashing down, including a negotiation that is the only thing standing between a man's survival and the people who want him dead.Zorana tells herself she is gathering information. She tells herself the freedom to walk the compound's perimeter is a tactic. She tells herself she knows exactly what is happening to her.She is wrong about all of it.What the Interrogator Kept is a story about a journalist who goes looking for the truth and finds a different story entirely. About two people trained to extract what others conceal, caught in the same room. About the difference between understanding someone and being safe from them.And about what happens when the interrogator decides to keep something he was never supposed to want.