Hurt Me by Varian Krylov

I called the man I was hunting, the jackal.
I didn’t know his name. I’d never seen his face. I had nothing but the video he’d shot while he cornered a sobbing kid at the point of his knife, and punished her.

I recruited Xavi to help me track the jackal – who better to help me find a nameless, faceless man with a tattoo on his forearm, than a tattoo artist moonlighting as a private investigator?

I knew things might get violent—I fantasized the jackal’s slow, agonizing death every day.
But I never guessed it would be me suffering, me begging, me crying.
Or that it would be Xavi hurting me…
…because I begged him to.

A prequel to Dangerously Happy, and Bad Things, Hurt Me reveals the secrets that brought Dario and Xavi so close, then twisted their lives forever.