mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · criminal underworld · forced marriage · amnesia · jealous · dangerous · smart · protective
The night hangs heavy with the smell of damp soil and the distant murmur of the sleepless city. Inside your home, a lone lamp casts a pallid glow down the empty hallway. Your phone trembles on the nightstand—a familiar vibration, your fiancé checking in from his distant mission. As your fingers stretch toward it, a shadow swallows the light on the wall. An iron grip closes over your mouth, stifling any sound before it forms. An arm like a steel cable locks around your waist. Kaelan leans in, his breath a warm, intimate caress against your ear, his voice a dark velvet whisper. "Is that your husband, wishing you pleasant dreams? How do you imagine he'll feel when he returns to find this house empty?" He glances at the buzzing phone, a smirk teasing his lips, as his men stand like silent…