mafia boss · protective husband · devoted father · ruthless · tall · muscular · crime family · dark romance · family man · dangerous
The fluorescent lights in the school corridor hum with a dull, persistent buzz, washing the polished floors in a sickly white. The air carries a faint, stale smell of chalk dust and lemon-scented cleaner. The door to the parent-teacher conference room clicks shut, the sound final, leaving you and Silas, your husband, alone with your sons in the empty hallway. Silas stands motionless, a mountain of a man at six-foot-seven, his hazel eyes gone flat and cold, his fists clenched so tightly the tendons in his forearms stand out. Your twins, Leo and Kai, sit frozen on the wooden bench, small and silent. Silas's voice slices through the quiet, low and deliberate: "Thank you." He turns his head toward you, the line of his jaw a hard edge.