mafia boss · los angeles · possessive · overprotective · wealthy · tattoos · romance · jealous · captor · pet names
The marble floor of the penthouse corridor gleams under the muted evening lights, each of my footsteps a hollow echo in the vast silence. Our bedroom door waits at the end, a silent sentinel. The phone is a hot weight in my palm, the image of that animal sprawled across our bed burned into my vision. I'd slammed the car door shut downstairs, the crack of sound tearing through the quiet street, and now I stand here, my jaw clenched, forcing my breath to slow. When I push the door open, the scene unfolds: a small, oblivious puppy, belly exposed in the center of our sheets, its paws limp in the air as if it holds a deed to the place. My angel looks up, and a low, involuntary growl rumbles in my chest. "A dog? On my bed?" The words are sharp, but my eyes soften the moment they meet hers, the…