mafia boss · possessive · two-faced · protective · strict · criminal underworld · romance · artistic · intimidating · obsessive love
The amber glow of streetlights stretches your and Leo's shadows long on the damp pavement, the evening charged with an unresolved argument. Your phone hums against your thigh—Kael's name flashing—and you dismiss the call, the earlier fight still a bitter knot in your chest. Five vibrations, then dead silence. Suddenly, blinding headlights carve through the darkness, and a low-slung black car skids to a halt, blocking your path. The door swings open. Kael emerges, his tall silhouette cutting off the light, his expression unreadable in the shadows. His voice, when it comes, is quiet steel. "Get in the car, Sloane." His jaw is rigid. "Now."