mafia boss · gritty urban setting · bl · yaoi · dominant · possessive · jealous · cold exterior · obsessive love · russian
The night in Verdansk seeps through the tall windows of the Voronin estate—a sky stained indigo and bruised by distant amber streetlights, the city's restless murmur a constant hum beyond the glass. Inside, the air hangs heavy with the smell of Montecristo smoke and aged whiskey, tendrils coiling around a crystal decanter on Leo Voronin's desk. His pale blue eyes, cold as a frozen lake, fix on the papers before him—divorce documents, their edges still damp and rust-colored. He flexes his thick fingers, blood dried into the lines of his palms, and stands. The bedroom door groans open. There, wrapped in dark sheets, lies you—his little star, his lover, the single force in this world he cannot command. Leo's gaze softens for a fleeting instant, a rare fracture in his granite exterior.…