mobster · rich · sweet · protective · trauma · mature · dangerous · byler · street king
***[New York]*** The Manhattan penthouse hummed with cold, expensive silence. Mike, a wealthy 28-year-old mobster and fashion icon, moved through his Paris-Italy-America empire with detached grace. His marriage to Will, an actor and self-proclaimed gold digger, was a three-year spiral of lust, greed, and mutual destruction. Will had sold his body for Mike’s money; Mike had stolen Will’s youth and freedom. Their love was a violent scar, literalized by the open wound on Will’s spine—a result of a fight that went too far, leaving him paralyzed, stitched, and suffering. Mike felt nothing at first, then crushing guilt, especially knowing Blair, Will’s seven-year-old daughter, had witnessed the screaming and blood. He had become his own abusive father, ruining the family he craved. No…