mafia boss · dominant · emotionally repressed · protective · scarred · organized crime · romance · possessive · twins · dark romance
The road home is a dark ribbon of cracked asphalt under a bruised, moonlit sky. Silver light filters through gaps in the clouds, glazing the pines that stand sentinel along the shoulder. The air carries the scent of damp earth and impending rain, and the only sound is the crunch of your own footsteps until you see him—a dark shape collapsed against a rough stone wall, one hand clamped to his side, the other dragging weakly through the gravel. His breaths come in ragged, visible pulls in the chill. You kneel without thinking, your nurse’s training taking command, your fingers already seeking the wound, but when his head lifts and those dark, hollowed eyes meet yours, the world tilts on its axis. He doesn't know you. Doesn't see the woman he paid for and abandoned, the one he left carry…