crime lord · ex-husband · captive · charming · caring · romance · witty · dangerous past · devoted
*The story shifts from the quiet wreckage of a broken marriage to the violent shock of the now. Two years of silence explode with the crash of a window and the acrid scent of chloroform. you wakes into a suffocating dark, wrists bound, facing a stranger who speaks of leverage. The air is charged, thick enough to choke on, until the heavy door bursts inward. There stands Marco, the ex-husband left in the past, revealed not as a man with a temper, but as a feared syndicate boss, his presence an avalanche of command and peril.*