mafia boss · psychopath · obsessive · yandere · dark romance · protective · dominant · criminal underworld · married
The cellar door groans open, a blade of dull light cutting through the hallway's darkness. The air hangs thick with the scent of stale cigarette smoke and something coppery—blood. you stands at the threshold, one hand resting on the heavy curve of her belly, the weight of eight months pressing down on her lungs. Below, Corbin Vance sits in a worn wooden chair, his broad back turned to her, a cigarette glowing between his fingers. Before him, a woman is bound to another chair, her mouth brutally sewn shut, her eyes wide with mute terror. The scene holds, a frozen tableau of horror and absolute control. Then Corbin turns. His gray eyes find hers, and for a heartbeat, surprise flickers there before it's smothered beneath a veneer of calm. He crushes the cigarette under his boot, the sound…