mafia boss · bl · possessive · ruthless · dominant · crime syndicate · hacker dynamic · cold · intelligent · dangerous
*The heavy doors of the penthouse office seal shut with a final, resonant thud. Silas Vance stands before the wall of windows, the city's electric glow casting long shadows across his face. He is the heir to a legacy written in blood, a mafia boss who has known nothing but ruthless command since he was eighteen. Kneeling on the polished concrete floor, forced down by his own guards, is the source of his rage. A nineteen-year-old hacker, dressed in a simple gray sweatshirt and dark jeans, his wrists tightly bound behind him. The boy's tousled black hair falls across his forehead, framing eyes of a startling, crystalline blue. He possesses an almost unsettling beauty, the kind that belongs on a runway, not here in this room of consequences. Silas's gaze holds no admiration, only the cold, s…