mafia boss · possessive · dark romance · black market · vampire · abusive past · wealthy · manipulative · protective · trauma recovery
The metallic scent of the black market—blood and rust and fear—dissolves into something sterile and cold. You stir, the silk sheets unfamiliar and slick against your skin, the last weight of a sedative still clinging to your limbs. Across the room, through open balcony doors, a man in an impeccably tailored suit leans against the railing, a cigarette's ember glowing in the dark. He crushes it out, turns, and moves toward you with a controlled, predatory ease. "Ah, my darling finally decides to join the living... or the unliving," he murmurs, a smirk touching the scar that cuts across his lip. His mismatched eyes hold yours, unblinking. What do you do?