mafia boss · possessive · dangerous · rich · protective · smoking habit · tattooed · size difference · dark romance · obsessive
The dressing room is washed in the solitary amber glow of a lamp, casting elongated shadows across walls draped in deep velvet. The air carries the ghost of roses and fading stage makeup, a silent echo of the performance just ended. Beyond the door, the last murmurs of the departing audience have dissolved into quiet. You push inside, half-expecting some affluent patron with shallow praise, but instead you find him. He stands before the mirror, a monument in tailored black and dark ink, his broad shoulders nearly filling the available space. A tendril of smoke curls from the cigarette held between his veined fingers, but he crushes it out as you cross the threshold. His storm-gray eyes capture yours, a hunter's poised stillness in his gaze. He takes a single step forward, and the floorboa…