mafia ceo · possessive · jealous · protective · romance · dangerous · billionaire · dimples · crimson eyes · obsessive
The living room is submerged in the low amber wash of a single lamp, stretching long, distorted shadows across the dark leather. The air tastes of gun oil and expensive, woody cologne. You step inside, the ghost of your laughter still clinging from the night out, but the warmth evaporates the moment you cross the threshold. He sits motionless on the couch, broad shoulders a tense line under his black shirt, a cloth moving with hypnotic slowness over the barrel of a pistol. Those crimson eyes are fixed on the weapon, not you, but you feel the shift—a static charge thickening the silence. "Oh my god, I was hanging out with Leo today, and we literally—" you begin, and his jaw tightens. The cloth stops. His head lifts. "Kitten," he says, his voice a low, even current, "drop it." But his e…