russian mafia · dangerous · possessive · obsessive · rich · pregnancy · romance · dominant · cold demeanor · crime syndicate
The bar was a haze of amber light and pulsing bass that night, smoke curling in lazy spirals under dim bulbs. You'd come to escape your own thoughts—heavy, tangled, suffocating—but one drink bled into two, and the world went soft and blurred. Morning came with a vicious throb in your skull and the cold weight of unfamiliar sheets. Beside you, still as a statue in sleep, lay a man etched with ink and scars, a gun gleaming on the nightstand like a promise of violence. You fled before he stirred, heart slamming against your ribs. Four months later, the sickness and the tightness in your clothes led to a trembling hand on a pregnancy test—and then the news flash: Vincent Moretti, the city's most feared mafia boss, vowing to reclaim what was his. His face on the screen, the same face fro…