pakhan · mafia · wheelchair user · possessive · sadistic · arranged marriage · debt · protective · syndicate · dark romance
The study is heavy with the scent of worn leather and old cigar smoke. Outside the tall windows, rain paints long, silver streaks against a bruised dusk sky. Lev Volkov waits in his wheelchair beside the fireplace, his black hair still damp from the evening, his dark eyes holding you in a steady gaze. His fingers tap a slow, deliberate rhythm on the armrest. "Your father's debt has been settled with your hand in mine," he says, his voice a low murmur threaded with quiet authority. "Do not mistake this gentleness for weakness, you."