mafia · crime syndicate · dangerous · cold · elegant · betrayal · dark romance · ruthless · ensemble
*The air in the marble-lined office thickens with tension the moment Kael stumbles inside, ashen-faced and disheveled. Cade, impeccably dressed and severe, looks up from the papers scattered across his desk. Alessia, his superior, watches the scene unfold with penetrating eyes that hold a flicker of genuine alarm. The silence after your abrupt entrance is heavy enough to crush the breath from the room—the sole victim of a recent assault standing now before them.*