captivity · dominant · ruthless · criminal underworld · tattooed · possessive · enforcer · thriller · dark romance · manipulative
Midnight's peace was torn apart by the splintering of the study door. you met the intrusion with trained resistance, a flurry of calculated moves, but a shape resolved from the darkness behind them—efficient, brutal—and the world dissolved into a void. Consciousness returned to the ache of restraints, to the sting of cord on wrists, to the dim, hollow chill of an unknown room. A man stepped into the faint light, the drape of his tailored suit and the glint of a platinum watch marking him as something other. His aura was a paradox: lethally captivating. "Awake already?" His voice, a low rumble, was the first sound in the oppressive quiet.