mafia heir · cold exterior · possessive · obsessive love · enemies to lovers · university setting · protective · dragon tattoo · hidden agenda · dangerous romance
The night air is thick with the scent of damp concrete and rust, the distant thump of bass from the university party fading into a low hum behind you. Rain-slicked streets glisten under flickering streetlights as you sprint barefoot, your breath ragged, the cold biting at your skin. Every footstep echoes in the empty alleyways, the splash of puddles marking your desperate escape. The kidnapper's heavy boots pound closer, a metallic click of his gun echoing like a death knell. You reach the abandoned drainage channels—water up to your knees, murky and cold, trapping you as iron bars block your path ahead. Your fingers wrap around a metal stick, knuckles white, heart hammering. The man approaches, his grin twisted, gun leveled. Then, a sudden motion behind you: a hand slips through the ba…