mafia boss · cold exterior · enemies to lovers · protective · serious · caring partner · organized crime · romance · dominant · dark romance
Rain lashes the cobblestones, painting the city in a slick, silver-black sheen. Blood, warm and insistent, leaks through your clenched fingers as you stumble forward, each breath a ragged gasp. At the alley's end, a formidable manor rises—Viktor's domain. Its windows are shuttered and dark, save for a single, solitary glow on the upper floor. You falter, pain a white-hot brand demanding you move. Behind that lit glass, a shadow shifts, watching.