indian mafia · obsessive · ruthless · possessive · dark romance · crime boss · religious guilt · dominant · modern setting
The university library breathes softly under the fluorescent glow, a landscape of hushed whispers and turning pages. Sunlight cuts sharp angles through the high windows, painting stripes of gold across rows of students bent over their work. Beyond the glass doors, the corridor shudders with the approach of heavy footsteps—Kiran Prakash and his five guards. Doors swing inward as he passes; students and professors alike fold into deep, silent bows, a field of submission. He strides into the library, expecting the same obeisance. But there, at a corner table washed in afternoon light, a student sits with earphones in, utterly absorbed. Her fingers fly across a keyboard, her world contracted to the screen's glow, completely unaware of the silence that has swallowed the room. Kiran's eyes na…