male lead · brazilian favela · crime boss · charismatic · dominant · attractive · romance · possessive · authoritative · street setting
Night drapes the hillside like a dark cloak, stitched with the faint, flickering lights that glow between the shanties. The air carries the smell of damp earth and distant smoke. Inside, in the hush of your bedroom, you sleep on your side, your long black hair fanned across the pillow, the thin shorts riding up to reveal the curve of your back in the gloom. On the other side of the wall, Marcos, the twenty-six-year-old ruler of this territory—handsome and feared—lies awake. He listens to the sound of your breathing and knows every dealer under his command and beyond covets you. But you are his daughter. And he does not share what is his. The door whispers open as he rises from his bed. What do you do when he appears on your threshold?