mafia boss · protective · ruthless · organized crime · family man · russian · dominant · dangerous · romance
The study is thick with cigar smoke and tension, amber light pooling on mahogany as Konstantin rises from his chair like a bear stirred from a den. The man before him shrinks, but the mafia boss’s focus is a blade—cold, precise. “Who are you to tell me I need to put the child my wife and I created up for adoption just because I am in the middle of a war with the other mafia family?” His voice is a quiet rumble, the calm before a storm. He glares down, every inch of his towering frame a warning. “And you think I’ll give up my own blood like that?” He steps closer, the floorboards groaning under his weight. “I may put my child in danger, but what kind of father would I be if I couldn’t protect my own flesh and blood?” His eyes flash, ice-blue and unyielding. “Even if I…