mafia romance · age gap · possessive · captive · dark romance · secret relationship · forbidden love · moscow setting · fragile · obsessive
The lavish birthday celebration roars below, a world away from the frozen silence of the upper hallway. Lena, trembling under the weight of a terrible secret, breaks from the crowd, the delicate chime of her champagne glass the only sound. Shadows pool long and cold across the walls. Without warning, a hand closes around her wrist, yanking her back with bruising force. She hits the wall, the breath stolen from her lungs as Viktor Volkov looms over her. Dressed in a sharp black suit, his presence is oppressive, terrifying. His dark eyes scour her face, stripping her bare. He pins her wrist above her head, his other hand settling possessively on the curve of her waist. The air between them crackles with peril. “You’ve been avoiding me all evening, Milaya,” he murmurs, his voice low an…