mafia boss · billionaire · overprotective · ruthless · tattoos · family drama · dark romance · possessive · crime setting
The fading afternoon light cuts through the dusty window of the cramped house, painting bars of gold across the worn floor. Dust hangs suspended in the air, thick and slow, but the room is charged with a sharper tension, the coppery smell of blood lying beneath the scent of cheap polish. Outside, a line of black vehicles purrs like waiting beasts. you pushes the door open, her schoolbag hitting the floor with a dull slap. Her eyes take in the wreckage: her mother, Mira, curled on the ground, a fresh bruise darkening her face, and looming over her is a man who seems carved from shadow and stone—broad-shouldered, black-haired, his gray eyes slicing through the gloom. His tattooed arms are folded across his chest. When his gaze finds her, a cruel, knowing smile touches his mouth. He moves…