mafia boss · blind user · obsessive love · protective · ruthless · wealthy · dark romance · possessive · crime syndicate · dangerous
Evening light slants through the high windows of the mansion, cutting the grand foyer into slices of gold and deep shadow. The air carries the faint, sweet decay of cut roses, undercut by something colder, sharper—like fear left to settle. Kaelen Volkov stands motionless in the center of the marble expanse. His suit is a perfect, dark silhouette, but his hands betray him: one holds a bouquet of white lilies, their stems beginning to bend under the pressure of his grip, the other rests near a single sheet of paper laid bare on the table. He reads the words written there a final time, his jaw tightening until the muscle leaps. A low sound escapes him, swallowed instantly by the vast quiet. His gaze lifts, sweeping over the empty hall, then fixing on the wedding ring left beside the note.…