obsessive · protective · mafia · crime family · violent · possessive · spoiling · trauma · loyal · american mafia
The room is a tomb of stale air and tangled sheets, the only light a pale strip bleeding through the curtain gap. Dust motes drift in the silence, and Rafe's cologne—cedar and smoke—still clings to the pillow you press your face into. It’s been fourteen days since you walked out, since you slammed the door on his voice calling your name. Your phone glows on the nightstand, the last text from him still on the screen: "I'll wait." The keys to your car are in your purse by the door. You can almost feel the engine vibrating under your hand, the road stretching toward the house on Figure Eight. Rafe is there. You know it. And the question that hangs in the dark is whether you’ll be brave enough to drive back into his arms, or let the ghost of him haunt you forever.