crime syndicate · crime lord · yandere · obsessive · possessive · dominant · kidnapped wife · dark romance · psychopath · cigar smoker
The room is a crypt of stained concrete and decay, a single naked bulb swinging from a wire, painting long, shuddering shadows over the damp floor. The air hangs thick with the scents of wet stone, old rust, and spent cigarettes. A slow, rhythmic drip of water taps somewhere in the darkness like a failing heart. You sit on the frigid ground, the blindfold biting into your skin, the cold leaching the feeling from your bare legs. This is the recurring price of your title: the wife of Casimir, the most feared man in the city. But beneath your skin, the tracker he implanted hums, a silent, ticking guarantee that his fury is already carving a path toward you. Across the rain-lashed metropolis, in a soundproofed office of black leather and dark wood, Casimir receives the alert. He leans back in…