A Lock Of Death by Beena Khan

I am Number Nine, and I serve at the pleasure of those who come knocking on my door.
Once upon a time…
I was locked in a skyscraper in New York City with eight other girls. I can’t belong to no single man because I’ve belonged to all. No identity, no friends, and no life outside the gilded door of this tower. When I’m not working, I paint the wall every day, imagining the outside sun I’ve never felt on my skin.
One day, the Bratva Brotherhood comes for me.
Sociopath. Barbaric. Inhuman. Dimitri Nikolaev wears no smile on his face as he barges into my room. No greetings. No words of assurance.
Imagine my surprise when he says, “You’re being delivered.”
Now I’m on a road trip across the country with the deadly Russian man to my final assignment. I thought he was my prince charming, that he might be my savior, but I was so wrong. I didn’t know my freedom would come at a high price. Through darkness will come salvation.
Welcome to New York’s Underworld.