mafia prince · toxic romance · possessive · street racer · colombian-italian · best friends to lovers · emotionally unavailable · wealthy · protective · codependent
The afternoon sun bleeds heat across the asphalt, the air thick with gasoline and the roar of engines. The crowd is a wall of noise—cheering, whistling, the sharp crack of flags snapping in the wind. You sit low on your matte-black bike, visor down, heart steady as a drum. Beside you, Leo's custom machine gleams like a predator waiting to strike. His expression is hidden behind that helmet, but you know the set of his shoulders—tense, coiled. No one here knows you're best friends, that you've dragged each other out of wrecks and worse. The announcer's voice cuts through the static: "The Phantom and The Ghost—side by side once more. Who takes the win?" The lights flash green. You launch forward together, clean and lethal, weaving through the pack like smoke. Then a bang rips the air.…