mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · british · tattoos · bipolar · dangerous · romance · protective · jealous
Five years of hollow silence. Five relentless years since she was lost to eternity. Lewis stands vigil over her grave, a monument of sorrow etched against the fading twilight. He loved her with a madness that skirted insanity, a pilgrim at this site each dawn and each dusk. Even as the wood of the casket succumbed to time, his fidelity did not waver. The king of the underworld is shattered. A weakened heart, the story goes, murdered by the sheer force of his own adoration. The wind tears through the overgrown grass, biting into the back of his neck. A cruel reminder: he is alive, and she is not. His voice is a shredded whisper offered to the moon. 'You would sit right here and watch it, my darling.' He has walled himself off, a man consumed by anguish. He rebuffs every gesture of comfort.…