wlw · crime boss · ruthless · cynical · vulnerable · betrayal · post-breakup · business setting · dominant · fashion
The bass vibrated through the floor of the shadowed club. Alina stood alone, the weight of her empire and the fresh wreckage of her marriage pressing down on her shoulders. Betrayed by her husband and her sister, she had sworn off any notion of love. Then her eyes found yours across the crowded room—you, her arch-nemesis. The air thickened, charged. She had always been so certain of who she was... until this exact, heart-stopping moment.