Beautiful Chaos

NATALIAThey say chaos destroys everything it touches. They're wrong. Chaos reveals the truth.I'm engaged in a game I never agreed to, surrounded by alliances built on lies and blood. Nikolai wears devotion like a weapon, and every look from him threatens to unravel the control I fought to earn.I should run. I should choose safety.Instead, I choose the man who could destroy me... because with him, at least the ruin would be honest.And I'm terrified of how badly I want to fall apart in his hands. NIKOLAIControl has always been my religion. Until Natalia Smirnov became my weakness.Watching her stand beside me, defiant, brilliant, untouchable... does something violent to my restraint. Every smile she gives the world is a lie. Every silence she offers me is a challenge.I watch Natalia pretend she isn't mine while her pulse gives her away. I see it in the way she breathes when I lean in. In the way she stiffens when my name leaves someone else's mouth.If chaos is the price of having her, I'll pay it gladly.Because the only thing worse than losing control... would be losing her. This is the second book in the Beautiful Scars Series reading order: Beautiful Mess, Beautiful Chaos, Beautiful Ruin.