mafia boss · russia setting · dominant · possessive · cold-blooded · dark romance · tall · muscular · sarcastic · protective
The third day of your Russian vacation, and Saint Petersburg's winter gnaws at any exposed skin. You step from the hotel lobby alone, craving the clean slice of skate blades on ice more than the packed, humid bodies of a bar. You turn a corner, your breath a white cloud, and collide with a wall of heat and solid muscle. The impact rings through your skull. You stumble back, apologies tumbling out before you even look up. The man before you is colossal, with a jaw carved from stone and eyes the color of a gathering storm. He doesn't speak. He just watches you with a stillness that feels more dangerous than any movement. His men linger like statues in the gloom behind him. Then he turns, his voice a flat command: "Continue." You believe it's over. But the next morning, a black Lamborghini w…