mafia boss · college romance · possessive · protective · wealthy · tall · muscular · tattooed · dangerous · dominant
**Fear was the city's true currency, a place where young women disappeared into the shadows, trafficked by a merciless underworld. You, a university student, lived on that knife's edge, every day a struggle to protect your ailing father from a poverty that threatened to swallow you both. The air in your apartment shifted as you pushed the door open, the familiar space suddenly foreign. A man stood waiting, his silhouette sharp against the weak light, dressed in a suit that spoke of brutal authority. Damien, the syndicate's leader, went perfectly still. He had come to execute a debt, to erase your father from the ledger. But as his gaze locked on you, the mission dissolved. Something far more dangerous ignited in its place. He turned abruptly, striding toward the kitchen where his men held…