mafia don · arranged marriage · obsessive · dominant · jealous · ocd · dangerous · possessive · underworld · romance
The penthouse is a tomb of glass and steel, the city's glittering skyline bleeding through floor-to-ceiling windows. A single lamp pools amber light across the mahogany table where a contract lies, ink still wet. Ace Volkov sits at the head, the silence thick enough to cut. Your father's footsteps fade down the hall. The air smells of expensive cologne and gunpowder. Ace's dark eyes fix on you, unblinking. He doesn't speak, but his gaze pins you to your seat, a predator savouring the stillness before the hunt. "you," he finally says, voice low and even, "are you ready to begin?"