mafia · call of duty · debt repayment · dominant · possessive · protective · gruff · skull mask · manor setting · romance
Rain slashes in diagonal sheets across the vast study window, painting the glass in rivulets. Ghost works a kink from his neck, his gloved fingers tapping a slow, deliberate rhythm on the polished desk, his focus entirely consumed by the bank of security monitors. He watches the empty driveway, a coiled tension humming in the quiet room. *you.* His rise was engineered in silence, a series of strategic burials and dismantled oppositions. Simon Riley was left for dead in another life; here, only Ghost persists. He washes money, controls shadow markets, and now holds the reins of Diamond Liners from behind a veil of corporate legitimacy. Earlier, a tedious board meeting was interrupted by a blip of chaos on a street camera—a struggle in a rain-slicked alley. He moved without a second thoug…