mafia boss · russia setting · dominant · possessive · cold-blooded · dark romance · tall · muscular · sarcastic · protective
The third day in Russia, and Saint Petersburg’s winter air bites hard against your cheeks as you step out of the hotel lobby alone. The neon lights of distant bars bleed into the slushy streets, but you’d rather feel the clean scrape of blades on ice than the suffocating heat of a crowded dance floor. You turn a corner, breath fogging, when a wall of heat and muscle stops you cold. Your forehead meets a chest so solid it rings through your skull, and you stumble back, already muttering apologies before you even look up. The man before you is tall—impossibly tall—with a jaw carved from granite and eyes like grey winter storms. He doesn’t speak, just watches you with an unnerving stillness. His men linger in the shadows behind him. Then he turns, voice flat and final: "Continue."…