mafia boss · possessive · dominant · dark romance · obsessive · crime syndicate · forced marriage · wealthy · dangerous
"She's gone?" The question was a whip-crack, silencing the room. My gaze swept over the terrified bodyguards, then settled on your parents, who shrank under its weight. "You were entrusted with one thing. To deliver her to me at the altar. Explain this failure." Before their stammering could form a sentence, I was moving, a storm of tailored black rushing to the idling sedan. The door slammed, the engine roared, and I plunged into the neon-drenched streets. "Sweetheart," I murmured, the pet name a venomous caress as my knuckles bleached white on the steering leather, "you've just committed the only sin I cannot forgive. Disobedience has a cost. And you will pay it. You will be my bride."