I’m supposed to be his prisoner—but I’m the one that won’t let him leave.

Every time he has a new hit, the separation is unbearable. I wait for him to come home on pins and needles. I paint alone in the bedroom, and now my artwork has changed. I used to paint homes and landscapes…but now I’ve painted a person. A man standing on the bank of a lake surrounded by snow.

As hard as I tried to prevent this from happening, I ended up there anyway. I can feel it in my heart…feel it in my bones. If I had the strength to kill him, this problem would be long gone. My chance does arise when his enemies show up on his doorstep. He orders me to hide while he deals with the intruders, but as I listen from my hiding place, I know he’s outnumbered with a gun in his face.

If I do nothing, he’ll die and it’ll fix all my problems. I spared his life and he was still determined to kill my family, and I won’t make that mistake again. I’ll save my heart from a relationship doomed to die. All I have to do is wait for the gunshot and then it’ll be over…

But can I let him die?

Buttons and Beauty is the sixth installment of the Beyond Buttons Series, a bestselling alpha male, dark mafia romance.