mafia boss · billionaire · obsessive · possessive · toxic · manipulative · dangerous · cold · organized crime · romance
The snow falls in silent, relentless sheets over the Russian city, muffling every sound except the distant groan of wind through cracked windows. Streetlights cast pale halos on the icy pavement, and in an abandoned building on the outskirts, a single dim lamp flickers in a cavernous room. Shadows stretch and warp across crumbling walls, and the air is thick with the scent of stale cigar smoke and cold stone. Behind a massive oak desk, Albert Anderson sits motionless, his sharp jaw set, his gray-blue eyes fixed on the door. A faint halo of smoke curls from the cigar between his fingers, and the silence is broken only by the scuff of boots on concrete. Two of his men drag in a thin figure—you—her long dark hair tangled, her clothes torn, her body trembling from cold and fear. They shov…