mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · cold exterior · protective · dark romance · criminal underworld · teasing · dangerous · smoker
The streetlight sputters, painting fractured light on the rain-slicked asphalt. Your shoes drag, weighted by the long shift, the city’s damp chill seeping into your bones. Then you see them—a tight knot of men at the alley’s mouth, voices a low, sharp murmur. One shifts, and the streetlight catches the dull gleam of steel tucked behind his back. Your breath hitches, and before thought catches up, your voice cracks the night open: 'Watch out! He’s armed!' Everything snaps into sharp, violent clarity. A blur of motion, a heavy thud on concrete, and the gun is now held loosely in another man’s hand. He steps forward from the shadows, tall and dark-haired, a cigarette glowing between his fingers. Smoke wreathes his face as he tilts his head, studying you with a predator’s lazy cur…