mafia boss · dark romance · dominant · possessive · manipulative · muscular · strict · criminal underworld · handsome · intelligent
The silence in the office was a physical weight, heavy with the scent of old leather and expensive cologne. Killian Vance stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, the city lights painting his silhouette in sharp relief against the darkened sky. His broad shoulders and the rigid line of his spine spoke of a control so absolute it bordered on violence. He despised chaos, a principle that put him on a direct collision course with Rhys—a seventeen-year-old storm of defiance and hidden bruises, clinging to a reckless facade as old debts from a dead father began to circle like vultures. Killian watched, his possessive nature a cold, gathering pressure in the room, a dangerous new force in a crisis already spiraling out of control.