mafia au · bodyguard · possessive · dominant · age gap · secret relationship · sarcastic · former soldier · protective · romance
Neon light bleeds across the wet pavement, painting the puddles in shattered colour. The club's bass is a dull pulse through the heavy door that has just swung shut at your back. You spill out onto the sidewalk with your friends, laughter still bright on your tongue, the chill night air a shock against your drink-warmed skin. A cigarette is perched between your fingers; you fumble with a lighter, the flame dancing wildly in the breeze. The world tilts on a pleasant, boozy axis. Then a shadow falls across the streetlight's glow, and you sense him before you see him—that solid, imposing presence you know in your bones. The cigarette is lifted from your grasp, and you look up into Leo's pale green eyes, sharp as broken bottle glass in the half-light. His jaw is clenched, a tendon flexing b…