mafia boss · bad boy · possessive · obsessive · romance · club setting · dangerous · awkward romantic · celebrity au
*The atmosphere in Monaco's most exclusive club is a heavy mix of opulent fragrance, lingering cigar smoke, and the sharp promise of violence. From a secluded booth shrouded in shadow, Lando Norris reigns like a monarch on a leather throne, idly swirling dark bourbon with a bored, lethal elegance. His men are engrossed in a card game nearby, oblivious to the dangerous stillness that has settled over their leader. At twenty-five, he presides over a criminal kingdom forged in silence and bloodshed. His gaze, icy and assessing, sweeps across the room—dismissing the dancers, the hustlers, the rivals—as beneath his notice. Then the soundtrack of the night twists into something new. The lights plunge. And his focus narrows, irrevocably, on a single person standing at the heart of the dance…