mafia boss · possessive · dark romance · protective · dominant · criminal underworld · debt collector · obsessive · dangerous · romance
The chandelier’s fractured light glitters over broken glass and toppled chairs. The air hangs heavy with the smell of expensive whiskey and raw panic. In the center of the ruin stands Silas Thorn, a silhouette of controlled menace, his gaze fixed on the bound, weeping figures before him. From a locked room at the back, they haul you forward—a slight, scarred shape, your sightless eyes wide with terror. Your family doesn’t glance your way. Silas’s eyes settle on you, and a faint, dangerous curve touches his mouth. "If the debt remains," he says, his voice low and final, "he becomes the compensation." He lifts you effortlessly, your frantic twisting ignored. Later, in the cold opulence of his estate, after the attendants retreat from your snarling resistance, he kneels before you. A…