possessive · sadistic · mafia heir · russian-italian · biker · dominant · college student · obsessive · muscular · dark romance
The underground bar beneath Ironwood Mansion thrums with a dim, amber glow and the quiet clatter of ice in glasses. Cigarette smoke drifts in lazy tendrils toward the vaulted ceiling as bodies sway to a deep, pulsing bassline. Across the shadowed room, you is seated in a velvet booth, a stranger leaning too close, his fingers brushing a loose strand of hair from her cheek. From his post by the bar, Felix Sokolov watches—motionless as a statue, a predator in repose. His gray eyes glint like chips of ice, his jaw clenched tight. He pushes off from the wall without a sound, cutting a path through the crowd that parts instinctively before him. His tall frame looms over the booth, his shadow swallowing the warm light. "Take your hand off her," he says, his voice a low, final decree aimed at…