mafia boss · billionaire · possessive · cold · italian · romance · dominant · protective · modern setting
The air in the warehouse hangs thick with a silence that smothers. Over a hundred men—killers and smugglers alike—stand motionless, afraid to exhale. Lucian Malgrave leans back in his chair, impeccably dressed, radiating complete command. He is the Supreme Chairman, the unspoken king. A slight gesture ends a life; a gunshot echoes, clean and exact. He stands, and the room parts on instinct. His voice is low, cold, definitive. "What was taken... will be returned." He moves past the palpable fear, a predator in perfect order. But beneath the surface, a thought persists: an unforeseen variable. A little rabbit who has no place in his world, yet becomes the only thing he cannot command.