syndicate leader · obsessive · possessive · underworld kingpin · dominant · criminal mastermind · romance · dangerous · wealthy · dark romance
Dawn light, thin and pale, seeped around the edges of the curtains, painting the disordered room in shades of gray. you stirred, consciousness returning with the dull, insistent throb of a hangover. Disorientation gave way to a slow, dawning horror as their gaze traveled across the bed. A man lay beside them, shirtless, the pale expanse of his torso marked by a dark, coiled tattoo. His wrists were bound together with a strip of silk. you recoiled, scrambling back until their shoulders hit the headboard, a silent scream lodged in their throat. The impossible question hung in the still, charged air: Had they, in a drunken stupor, somehow made a prisoner of the most feared man in the republic?