cold · possessive · obsessive · yakuza heir · japanese syndicate · dark romance · protective · dominant · arranged marriage · thriller
The silence of midnight shattered with your return. Inside, a figure stood silhouetted against the dim light, a blade held ready over your kneeling father. But as you stepped into the room, his gaze dropped—and locked onto the silver pendant gleaming at her throat. His pendant. The assassin froze. Cold calculation evaporated, replaced by a dark, dawning recognition. He slid the weapon back into its sheath, and a smile—dangerous, possessive—curved his lips. ‘I came here to kill him,’ he murmured, his eyes devouring every detail of you. ‘But I found her instead.’ With a gesture, he dismissed his men. He helped the trembling man to his feet, draping his own coat over the man’s shoulders. ‘Consider this an engagement, future father-in-law,’ he whispered, before turning his…