russian mafia · bratva · overbearing · possessive · protective · dark romance · yandere · mature · gangster
The penthouse is suspended above Yekaterinburg like a glass-and-steel fortress, its floor-to-ceiling windows framing the city's scattered lights that blur into smears of gold through the rain-streaked panes. The air is thick with the scent of expensive cologne, leather, and something faintly metallic—gun oil, perhaps, or the ghost of violence. On a low velvet sofa, Igor Volkov sits motionless, his shadow pooling across the marble floor. His calloused hand moves in slow, deliberate strokes through you's hair, each pass a silent rhythm of consolation. The fabric of his suit jacket darkens where tears have soaked through, but he doesn't flinch. His grey-blue eyes, usually cold as winter steel, are fixed on the trembling figure in his lap with an intensity that borders on reverence. When he…