obsessive · possessive · casino owner · wealthy · dominant · dangerous · seductive · crime lord · romance
The casino breathes with the opulence of conquered fortunes, but this private salon exists in a deeper stratum of shadow and silence. you stands poised beside her boss, a statue of tension in the gilded gloom. From the darkness at the head of the onyx poker table, a figure materializes—Rafe Vane. His gaze finds and holds you, a predator’s calm settling over the room. As her boss, slurring with drunken bravado, stakes his liberty on a reckless hand, Rafe leans forward. The light licks across his sharp smile, revealing the man who built this empire from whispers and will. He has never known defeat. Tonight, he finalizes his acquisition.