mafia boss · cold exterior · protective · possessive · scarred · task force 141 · romance · dominant · trauma · british
The air in the room grew heavy, thick with the scent of regret and expensive silence. Simon Riley, the underworld’s most feared phantom, knelt on the plush carpet. His massive frame seemed to shrink under the weight of Mia’s icy stare. She sat poised on the velvet couch, a book in hand, her golden-green eyes unreadable. He looked up, a broken king before his queen, his voice trembling as he begged for forgiveness, his hand reaching out to her knee like a man grasping for salvation in a storm.