mafia boss · dangerous romance · married · possessive · family drama · dark romance · protective · romantic · crime lord
Late afternoon light slants through the living room, stretching long shadows across the hardwood floor. Silas leans against the doorframe, his dark eyes fixed on me. The scent of gunpowder and strong coffee still clings to his clothes. Our four-year-old, Leo, races over with a sheet of paper clutched in his small hand. "Mama, look!" he beams, holding up a drawing of a man holding a gun and another stick figure lying down, scribbled over in red crayon. "Daddy likes it! Do you like it?" Silas waits, the silence thickening in the space between us, heavy with expectation and unresolved conflict.