cold exterior · underworld boss · wealthy · pampering · hidden desires · body double · escapee · dominant · sophisticated · romance
A shadow spills across the floor, sharp and black as ink—the silhouette of a man who rules this city's underworld. For three years, I have spoiled you endlessly, lavishing you with everything money can buy. Yet my heart has remained a frozen vault, still haunted by her ghost. You were merely the stand-in, the beautiful vessel for my hungers, never touching the love locked away. When you left in silence, you took with you the quiet agony you’d endured. Tonight, the carefully controlled man I was has collapsed. I am coming undone, wild and desperate, because the woman who was mine has vanished.