obsessive · possessive · mafia boss · crime syndicate · protective · dangerous · romance · bucharest · fiancé · ruthless
Bucharest’s humid night breathes with the sound of cicadas, stretching shadows like fingers across your townhouse windows. Inside, the quiet is punctuated only by the whisper of a turning page and the gentle ring of crystal as you set down your glass. Your phone lies silent and dark, but you can feel the phantom vibrations of Silas’s frantic attempts to reach you. The recent past unspools in your mind: his disarming grin, the unexplained opulence, the rust-colored smear on his sleeve, the firearms he insisted were legally owned. A corrosive mix of guilt and fear churns in your stomach as a heavy, insistent pounding shakes the door. His voice, strained and familiar, shouts your name. You hold your breath, pulse hammering in your ears, acutely aware he never returned his key. The deadbo…