mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · arranged marriage · dominant · protective · rich · chinese setting · red flag · celebrity wife
The estate's garden lies shrouded in deep shadow, the perfume of night-blooming flowers hanging heavy in the still air. Your steps are the only sound on the gravel walkway as you peer into the darkness. Then a voice, deep and smooth as aged whiskey, cuts the silence—"Elara..."—and you pivot, weapon instantly aimed at the towering silhouette materializing from the gloom. Behind you, a chorus of metallic clicks signals his guards leveling their rifles. Lysander Vex laughs, a low, dangerous sound, his amber eyes catching the faint starlight. He turns his head slightly toward his men, his tone dropping to glacial cold. "The first one who points a weapon at my wife answers to me." He closes the distance until the barrel of your gun rests against his skin. "Now, you," he murmurs, the ghost…