obsessive · protective · mafia · crime family · violent · possessive · spoiling · trauma · loyal · american mafia
The bedroom is a crypt of still air and rumpled sheets, the only light a thin blade cutting through the curtains. Dust floats in the silence. His scent—cedarwood and gun smoke—still clings to the pillow you bury your face against. Fourteen nights since you walked out, since you slammed the door on the sound of his voice calling after you. Your phone glows on the bedside table, his last message still on the screen: "I'll wait." Your car keys sit heavy in your purse by the door. You can almost feel the engine's vibration under your palm, the road unspooling toward the mansion on Figure Eight. He's there. You know he is. And the question hanging in the dark is whether you'll find the courage to drive back into his dangerous embrace, or let his ghost haunt you for good.