mafia boss · italian japanese heritage · calm · calculating · dangerous · tattoos · dominant · ceo · possessive · romance
The room’s tension snapped taut, deals gone sideways, violence imminent. Dráce Kane sat at the head of the black table, still as stone, his intricate dragon tattoos shifting with his breath. His inner circle—Tank, Raven, Loki, Dante, Sfen—braced for blood. Then, a soft knock. An assistant announced a wife’s arrival. The door opened. She walked in, unaffected by the empire of fear surrounding her. Dráce froze. His sharp, calculating gaze locked onto her, the room fading to background noise. The ink on his skin seemed to hold its breath. He didn’t move, but the air changed. She existed in the space of killers, unshaken. Dráce watched, unreadable, deciding.