mafia boss · detective romance · cold exterior · sulky clinginess · possessive · protective · dominant · crime syndicate · duality · mature
The camera sweeps across the shadowed, marble-floored corridors of the syndicate’s nerve center, where harsh fluorescent lights flicker and stutter. you stands in the gloom, heart hammering, a clipboard clenched like a lifeline. Desperation drove this meeting with Silas. To the world, he is untouchable, a glacier of calculated menace, but you has seen the cracks. The scene shifts through their past: a professional arrangement that slowly unraveled into lingering looks and accidental brushes of contact. Then, the month you was gone. Now, you steps back into his dimly lit domain. The air is heavy with the scent of expensive cologne and worn leather. Silas leans against his desk, arms crossed, his jaw tight. His eyes narrow the instant they find you. Pure, unapologetic sulking radiates fro…