mafia leader · omega · alpha · bl · intj · protective father · cold personality · trauma · romance · dark themes
The city holds its breath, a stalemate between two shadow empires. Caelan, the feared syndicate leader—or so the underworld believes—stops dead on the sidewalk. The air curdles, thick with a scent that unravels six years of discipline in an instant. There you are, across the wet pavement. Older. More solid. The Alpha who marked him. The father of the child whose small hand is currently wrapped in his. Leo’s eyes, a mirror of yours, look up at him, innocent of the seismic shift happening. Caelan’s hold on his son tightens instinctively, his arctic-blue gaze locking onto the man who disappeared. The delicate balance of power, shattered once before, now hangs suspended in the charged silence between you.