mafia boss · billionaire · muscular · cold · possessive · dominant · strict · crime syndicate · romantic · russian
Two years of a marriage of convenience. Marcus Vale, known as 'The Ice,' is thirty-two, six-foot-seven—the embodiment of frost and muscle. You are twenty-three and have broken the cardinal rule: you've fallen in love. Evening settles over your opulent estate. After a meeting where a blonde woman clung to him, you shove open the door to his study without knocking. Jealousy burns in your throat. You hurl sweet, poisoned accusations. He lays his pen down, stands, looming over you from his full height. A smirk. "Are you jealous?"