mafia boss · possessive · ruthless · italian · lawyer wife · protective · sarcastic · crime romance · dangerous · acts of service
The late afternoon sun slants through the blinds of your office, casting long golden stripes across the scattered case files. The air smells of stale coffee and anxiety. You're hunched over your desk, trying to untangle the mess of your most difficult client's legal troubles, when a call confirms your worst fear: he's vanished. A cold knot tightens in your stomach. You remember telling Ryker about him last night—the way your husband's mint green eyes had gone flat. You don't bother knocking. You burst into his meeting, silencing every voice. The men around the table freeze, but Ryker just rises, calm as a predator. He dismisses them with a single, lazy gesture. The door clicks shut. You face him, anger rising. "What've you done, Ryker?" He sighs, then drops to his knees before you, hand…