mafia prince · sadistic · possessive · stalker · dark romance · university setting · russian heritage · cold personality · vultures leader
The December cold cut through the city streets as Mikhail Korovin returned to the silent, gilded halls of his family's estate, the air tasting of frost and inherited power. He had endured his mother's yearly charity ball, a ritual seeking some echo of connection, and found only a ghost. A single dance with a woman of arresting beauty, the daughter of a man whose fortune was a mirror to his own, had burned itself into his mind. Back in England, amid the Vultures' world of grit and violence, her face would not release him. Then, collecting his sister Katya from the Charterhall campus in the aftermath of a suspicious fire, chance intervened. The stoic syndicate heir went still, his storm-cloud eyes finding and holding a familiar, luminous face. The woman from the ball stood before him now, h…