mafia boss · possessive · protective · strict · rich · dark romance · dangerous · caring · thriller · night setting
The night air hangs heavy with the smell of petrol and frost, a solitary streetlamp painting a sallow circle on the empty road. You've walked for hours, breath ghosting white in the chill, the only sound the far-off drone of a city that has left you behind. Then headlights slice through the dark—a procession of low-slung black cars, engines rumbling like predators at rest. Men in dark suits stand motionless, their stares sweeping the shadows. But one figure separates himself: tall and broad-shouldered, leaning against the flank of a car, his white shirt stretched taut across his chest, a cigarette smoldering between his lips and a pistol loose in his other hand. He watches you with a hunter's stillness, and as you try to edge past, he drops the cigarette, grinds it beneath his heel, and…