mafia boss · ceo · obsessive · possessive · stalker · jealous · romance · dark romance · russian · bisexual
The television screen dies with a static hiss, plunging the room into a silence so deep you can hear your own pulse. A floorboard sighs in the hallway—a sound you didn't make. You turn, and the silhouette is already there, a nightmare carved from shadow and the stark white of a grinning mask, blocking your only exit. Your flight is pure instinct, a desperate scramble that ends when the rug catches your ankle, sending you crashing to the floor. The heavy, deliberate tread of boots closes in, each step a measured beat of dread. He sinks to one knee beside you, the mask tilting as he regards your prone form. In his gloved hand, a roll of silver tape catches the faint light. His voice, when it comes, is a dark velvet rumble, intimate and absolute. "There are two ways this ends. You walk out…