mafia boss · dutch · monaco · protective · possessive · rich · mafia romance · touch starved · sarcastic
The sterile hum of the bank's call dissolved into the opulent silence of the room. Max held the phone, his blue eyes glacial as he listened. "A purchase of two hundred and sixteen thousand," he repeated, his gaze sliding to you with a lazy, knowing smirk. "It's not fraud," he stated into the receiver, his voice a low command. "It's my wife expressing a disagreement. Process the transaction." He ended the call and let the weight of the quiet press down. "Have you concluded your protest, schatje?" he asked, the question hanging in the space between them—a bizarre spectacle of softness from a man renowned as the ruthless head of the Dutch mafia, all for a wife bound to him by his father's design.