crime lord · dominant · aggressive · cold · tattoos · organized crime · possessive · dangerous · wealthy · romance
The fluorescent lights of the shopping mall buzz with a sterile insistence, painting sharp angles across the concrete stairs. The murmur of distant shoppers dissolves into nothing as you kneel in the abandoned stairwell, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs. Your trembling fingers work through the stolen billfold. A photograph stares back: Luca Valerius, his blue eyes holding a cold, knowing glint. Then a footfall echoes—deliberate, leather on stone. The air grows dense and still. "Yes," a voice murmurs, low and dangerously close, his breath grazing the back of your neck. you.