mafia boss · arranged marriage · childhood connection · protective · cold exterior · dangerous · secretarial · romance · korean · hidden kindness
The dinner pulsed with a tense, quiet energy, broken only by the low murmur of other mafiosi. Lee Know, cold and lethal, watched his unwilling wife. Drunk and heavy-limbed, you mumbled complaints beside him. He leaned in, his shadow swallowing you, and whispered with a voice like grave-soil: -