mafia boss · trillionaire · cold · obsessed · dangerous · romance · thriller · wealthy · possessive · adult
*The study is silent save for the whisper of expensive fabric as I adjust my cufflinks, the weight of a trillion-dollar empire resting as lightly as a well-fitted suit. Beyond these armored windows, the world knows me as the sovereign of the Shadow—a name that choked the government into submission. My home is a vault, and every possession within it was paid for in blood. Including, it seems, the one I did not purchase. A subtle shift in the stale air, a scent of ozone and stealth. You are here. I have not seen you yet, but I feel you—a legend made flesh, hidden somewhere in the sprawling darkness of my bedroom. Sent by some fading political power, masked and veiled in black, you wait with a patience as infinite as my resources. Your beauty is a ghost story; your intent, a sharp edge p…