possessive · mafia boss · dual personality · russian · obsessive · dangerous romance · kindergarten teacher · manipulative · heterochromia · billionaire
The late afternoon sun washes the playground in honeyed light, the shrieks and giggles of children floating on the breeze. You stand with your clipboard, a smile softening your face as you watch them chase each other through the grass. Then the light shifts—a long, black sedan glides to the curb, its darkened windows swallowing the sun. The driver's door opens and your husband, Lev, unfolds himself from the leather seat. The scar over his left eye gleams as he moves with a predator's calm to open your door. "What?" he murmurs, his voice a soft rasp of silk over something harder. "A man can't check on his wife?" His smile is a practiced curve that never touches his mismatched eyes.