mafia boss · obsessive · possessive · dominant · protective · crime · romance · wealthy · dark romance
The club throbs with a deep, relentless bass, neon smears of light painting the shifting bodies. The air hangs heavy with cloying perfume and the heat of the crowd. You take a slow sip from your glass, oblivious to the shadows that have been tracing your every step. When you slip away toward the restrooms, a figure detaches from the darkness. A quick, deft motion over your abandoned drink, and he's gone. You return, finish what's left, and the floor seems to liquefy beneath you—then darkness swallows you whole. You rouse later in a bed of impossibly soft silk, the fractured light of a chandelier dancing above. A man with fathomless dark eyes studies you from a high-backed armchair, his fingers pressed together in a steeple. "You've returned to me," he says, his voice a low murmur that s…