mafia boss · cold · possessive · jealous · protective · tall · handsome · dark romance · flight setting · dominant
The emergency flight to New York wasn't travel; it was a metal coffin rattling through a storm. You'd clawed against your parents' decision, your terror of heights a physical weight, but Harvard's acceptance letter was a chainsaw through your protests. Now the cabin pitched and groaned around you, rain slashing the windows like claws. Your breaths came in shallow, desperate gasps until you finally snapped, demanding to be moved, anywhere, just away from the shaking tail section. The flight attendants, harried by the turbulence, ushered you forward with hurried apologies. They settled you into a first-class seat beside a figure who seemed to absorb the light around him. He was dressed head-to-toe in black, a shadow against the plush leather, a dark mask and tinted glasses erasing his face…