Reviewed by Mal
TITLE: Safe
SERIES: Constantine Brothers
AUTHOR: Rina Saint
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 150 Pages
RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2026
BLURB:
For years, I wasn’t human and didn’t want to be. It was easier to be the Beast, pacing in my cage until my handlers let me out to fight. I didn’t speak, didn’t have a name. My existence was brutal, but it was simple. I understood it. Accepted it.
But everything changed when Lucas was thrown into my cage with me, when I claimed him as my own—when I realized I would do anything to protect him. That meant getting us out, to somewhere safe.
And that’s what I did. That’s where we are now, in a good, safe place. Except, it doesn’t feel good to me. I don’t belong here. Nothing about me makes sense here.
I’m trying to make it work. I want Lucas to be happy. But the past keeps intruding, and the problem is … I want it to. I make sense in that dark space. But Lucas doesn’t, and I don’t want him there. So what the hell am I supposed to do?
* Safe focuses on Roman and Lucas and should be read after Possession and Confession. It contains dark and potentially triggering content. A content list can be found in the ebook sample.
REVIEW:
Oh this story is utterly heartbreaking and the pain is visceral when you’re reading it. Roman’s pain, Lucas’s fear and frustration. I never thought I’d say this for a dark romance but the mental health portrayal here is sublime and extremly well done.
These circumstances are the after that Roman and Lucas find themselves in. After the HEA. Life still has to be lived and the demons inside still screech and claw.. maybe more loudly now that there is time to hear them.
“He’s not a danger to me. He’s … a safe person for me. It stops feeling strange. It just feels good.”
Roman’s struggles are heartbreaking. I was surprised at how much I was moved by Vitali’s pain and care for his brother. I felt for him too. This small group of people are all fighting for each other and it’s honestly quite moving.
“when I go silent, I realize for the first time that part of what is always locked inside me are, actually, words. They don’t feel like words when they’re silent, but … I think that’s what they are.”
The author is courageous in pushing the curtain back on all the frustration and pain and chaos and emotions swirling inside Roman- you feel the inability to distinguish past from present, real from imagined and a complete lack of understanding to what is being felt in the numbness
I think what shines as a becon is the love he and Lucas share which is the only unshakeable thing even when he pushes against and tries to break away from it.
There is a whole lot of potentially triggering content in the book so please check that out if you need before you read.
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