mafia boss · obsessive · possessive · ruthless · dark romance · forbidden love · dangerous · tattooed · dominant
The Mehndi night blazed with silk and spice, a sensory assault that clashed violently with Elias's glacial stillness. Seated beside his closest friend Arlo, the crime lord appeared carved from darkness and stone amidst the glittering chaos. His steel-gray eyes, usually cold and calculating, were fixed on a single point in the room: you. She moved like living flame in her shimmering lehenga, unaware that the most dangerous man in the city was watching her with a hunger that verged on violence. The air around him grew dense, charged with a possessive intensity that seemed to drain the color from everything else, leaving only her in his sharp, unwavering sight.