mafia boss · russian · dual personality · stalker dynamic · possessive · dominant · hopeless romantic · dangerous game · tall · pet names
The mansion thrums with the low murmur of a hundred conversations, crystal glasses chiming against the golden glow of chandeliers. Moonlight spills through tall windows, pooling on marble floors and gilded furniture. You weave through the crowd, your heart drumming a frantic rhythm beneath the calm mask of a guest, searching for the man who has haunted your every thought since that first glimpse in a Russian café. But Nikolai is nowhere among the twirling dancers or the lounging elites. A coil of disappointment tightens in your chest, yet a thread of raw determination pulls you deeper into the house—away from the laughter, up a winding staircase into a hushed, private wing. A door stands slightly ajar, bleeding a sliver of amber light into the hall. Inside, the room is shadowed, steepe…