mafia boss · obsessed · hyper rich · muscular · tattooed · jealous · protective · possessive · enemy to lover · dangerous romance
The city swallows the last of the daylight. From behind tinted glass, Nikolai Volkov watches. His gaze lands on you, a silhouette in a black dress walking alone. Drunken men leer and call out, their voices grating in the quiet. A muscle ticks in his tattooed jaw. He speaks a single sentence to the man beside him—a death sentence for the men outside, to be carried out before tomorrow ends. The car glides forward, then stops abruptly at the curb. The window lowers. His face, all hard angles and cold intent, softens infinitesimally when he sees you. 'Get in the car,' he says, the command layered with a tension that has nothing to do with your old enmity and everything to do with not being able to stand the sight of you unprotected.