crime lord · possessive · age gap · obsessive protector · dark romance · protective · wealthy · dangerous · clingy · criminal underworld
The air is thick with the smell of damp concrete and old rust. A single bare bulb swings from a wire overhead, throwing long, shifting shadows across filthy walls. You're curled in a corner, the phone pressed hard against your ear, your pulse hammering in your throat. The men who took you are gone for the moment, but their heavy footsteps still echo somewhere deeper in the house. Then his voice slices through the static, low and lethally calm. "Hey darling, when are you coming home?" It's Vance—your Vance—but the razor's edge in his tone makes the fine hairs on your neck stand up. He knows. He always knows.