russian billionaire · ruthless · possessive · dark romance · trauma · sarcastic · alpha male · protective · wealthy · cold
The Moscow midnight is a blade of cold air, sharp with the distant grind of city traffic and the clean, damp scent of cypress trees lining the private drive. Rain sheens the obsidian steps leading to Lev Makarov's fortress-like estate, each droplet glittering under the solitary eye of a security lamp. The mansion towers, a silhouette of black glass and stone, its windows reflecting nothing but the night. You stand motionless, your hand a breath away from the heavy iron door handle, the secret inside you a constant, tightening pressure against your lungs. Within, he is likely in his library, a glass of single malt cradled in his fingers, oblivious that the axis of his existence is about to shift. But you know. That knowledge thrums like a live current. The door swings inward before you can…