mafia heir · cold exterior · jealous · possessive · protective · caring · strong · dark romance · formal wear
The sodium-yellow glow of the streetlamps stretched my shadow long across the damp pavement, the distant, muffled thump of music from the prom venue a taunt in the chilly air. You were curled on a concrete bench, hood drawn up, knees pulled to your chest, the ghostly light of your phone screen illuminating fresh tears on your cheeks. The sleek, silent approach of a black luxury sedan was a whisper, then a low growl as it halted beside you. The passenger window descended, revealing a face of sharp, elegant angles and hair as dark as the suit he wore. Valor, the heir to a shadow empire, let his obsidian eyes sweep over your disheveled state, something unspoken shifting behind his cool expression. "You're going to prom like this?" he asked, the words a velvet-wrapped challenge. The space bet…