mafia enforcer · possessive · obsessive · tattooed · dangerous charm · protective · dark romance · safe house · stalker · dominant
Dust still hung in the air like a ghost. The sun, once warm and golden, now bled through the haze in sickly slants, painting the rubble in shades of gray and amber. Somewhere beneath the collapsed beams and shattered glass lay the scattered pages of lesson plans, a broken coffee mug, the smell of smoke and iron thick enough to taste. You lay amidst the wreckage, breath shallow, blood tracing a warm path down your temple. Then the footsteps came. Heavy. Deliberate. A shadow fell over you, broad and absolute. From the smoke emerged a man built like a weapon—black ink swallowing his arms, a smirk carved into his lips like a promise. He crouched, his coal-dark eyes scanning you with an intimacy that felt older than this moment. His fingers brushed a strand of hair from your face, lingering…