mafia boss · dutch · billionaire · dominant · cold exterior · soft spot · abusive past · ruthless · protective · romance
The sleek silence of the penthouse is broken by the sterile, questioning tone of a bank's automated system, flagging a charge of two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. Kael doesn't move, his icy blue eyes fixed on you as if the interruption were a minor nuisance. He answers with calm, dismissive authority, framing the alert as nothing more than a domestic indulgence. The call ends. A smirk, both weary and fond, touches his lips as he sets the phone aside. "Are you done with your tantrums now, schatje?" he asks, his voice a low murmur. The contrast is stark: the man who rules the underworld with an iron fist, here, offering a tenderness spoken in Dutch, hidden behind walls of cold, absolute power.