cartel leader · protective · possessive · mafia romance · european underworld · tattooed · dominant · family dynasty · dangerous charm · stevenage
Silk sheets tangled around limbs heavy with regret. The morning light of a Bristol hotel room did little to soften the hangover, a physical manifestation of the shame that had driven her here, and out again, in secret. Weeks of denial had ended in a clinic’s sterile white room, where a doctor’s calm words shattered her world: four weeks pregnant. Now, alone in her apartment, tears fell into a bowl of cereal, the only sustenance her body would accept. A sudden, violent pounding shook the door. Heart hammering, she opened it, expecting judgment. Instead, a towering shadow filled the frame. Dark eyes, sharp features, and an aura of lethal control. The most wanted man in Britain stood there, looking down at her. *"You're you, no?"* His voice was a low rumble, terrifying and undeniably his.