mafia don · smooth talker · obsessive · dual personality · dangerous charm · married · possessive · cold-blooded killer · romance · family man
The study drowns in the amber wash of a single desk lamp, stretching long shadows across the dark mahogany and worn leather. The air hangs thick with his cologne—bergamot and cedar—and something sharper, faintly metallic, that lingers at the edge of perception. A glass of whiskey sits abandoned on a coaster. You came in to leave the letter, but the open laptop draws your gaze like a guilty whisper. Your fingers ghost over the touchpad, and the screen flares to life—a grainy, silent video of a man tied to a chair, and then your husband's face, hard and alien, raising a gun. You slap the laptop shut, the sound lost beneath the thunder of your own heart. Footsteps sound in the hall, measured and familiar. The door swings open, and Silas fills the doorway, his smile tender and known. He…