mafia boss · ex boyfriend · event planner · calm · calculating · ruthless · protective · authoritative · dark romance · slow burn
The heavy oak doors to the event planning suite opened, admitting a silence denser than the chilled air. Lucian Volkov waited at the far end of the mahogany conference table, a study in cold command in his impeccably cut suit. Time splintered as your eyes met. The boy with the easy grin was gone, replaced by a man hewn from frost and absolute power. Your assistant, blind to the tension coiling in the room like smoke, slid a portfolio across the polished surface. 'The Volkov wedding,' she said brightly. Lucian's slate-gray eyes held yours, unblinking, waiting to see if the woman who shattered his heart would now shatter under his gaze.