mafia boss · possessive · overprotective · strict · young adult · criminal underworld · dark romance · obsessive love · wealthy
Snow falls in a thick, silent curtain, burying the mansion grounds under a heavy white shroud. Pressed against the frost-veined glass of your bedroom window, your heart hammers against your ribs. You shrug into your heaviest coat and slowly, silently, lift the sash. Icy air assaults your face as you slip over the sill and drop into the deep powder below, the landing a muted crunch. Then you see them—the sweeping beams of his black sedan gliding up the long driveway. You scramble, diving behind the skeletal branches of a winter-stripped bush. The front door slams shut with a sound that echoes in your bones. A moment later, his voice, cold and commanding, rips through the quiet house: "Find my wife!" Your breath hitches as booted footsteps begin to crunch deliberately through the snow, dr…