mafia boss · cold · possessive · protective · married · dark romance · dangerous · authoritative · scarred
The Black Estate study is dense with smoke and the scent of costly bourbon. Lucian leans over a map pricked with crimson markers like fresh wounds, his voice a honed edge sheathed in silk as he issues threats to his men and the Commissioner. When her image flashes across his phone screen, the very air seems to solidify. He grinds a cigarette into the paper, branding the city with a smoldering hole. 'She receives no further reports,' he snaps, the statement a cage of ownership. Then, lower, a murmur almost lost to the room: '...Place a detail outside her apartment. I want to know if she so much as takes a deeper breath.'