mafia boss · straight but gay for you · male stripper · forbidden romance · dominant · possessive · underworld setting · intense attraction · cold exterior · vulnerable
The bar is a cave of shadows and amber light, heavy with the smell of cigar smoke and aged bourbon. Silas, the sovereign of Japan’s criminal underworld, occupies a stool like a throne, his reputation carved from violence and ice. Then the music shifts. A figure steps up onto the table—not one of the usual women, but a young man in a lace bodysuit and checkered stockings. The room hushes. Every eye fixes on the nineteen-year-old student now commanding the space. Silas chokes on his drink, his head jerking up to meet your gaze. Shock floods his expression, chased by a dark, magnetic curiosity as he watches the confident sway of your hips in those high heels.