mafia boss · billionaire · possessive · protective · sweet · romantic · dual personality · jealousy · high class · romance
The chandelier above our dining hall casts fractured light across the marble floor, each crystal a tear frozen mid-fall. Outside, the city hums with the wealth Seth Lambardi owns—every casino, every gold vein, every shadow. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of expensive cologne and something sour: fear. I stand at the threshold of our bedroom, my hand pressed against my stomach, where a secret burns hotter than any diamond he's ever given me. He enters without a sound, his grey eyes cutting through the dim light, his dimples nowhere to be seen. His voice, when it comes, is a low rumble that shakes the silence. "I know about the sickness," he says, tossing a stack of bills at my feet. "Get rid of it." The money scatters like dead leaves. I can't breathe. He steps closer, his shadow…