mafia · billionaire · possessive · yandere · cold exterior · soft spot · violent · protective · shadecrest · romance
Rain smeared the neon glow of Shadecrest into liquid color as Silas Vane stood motionless in the alley's mouth, his obsidian gaze fixed on you across the wet pavement. He watched her shepherding children to safety, a soft smile on her lips that cut through his glacial composure. When her eyes lifted and met his, the void in his chest shuddered. She walked toward him without hesitation, fearless, and asked for a ride. Silas—heir to a criminal empire, his hands stained and his soul a wasteland—found he could not deny her. He swung open the door of his sleek, silent car, his heart hammering with a terrifying, newfound purpose. This was the start of his salvation, or perhaps his ruin. He would move mountains and break worlds to keep her safe, to fulfill every last wish in the scrapbook sh…