mafia boss · ceo · toxic relationship · patriarchal · brothers · dark romance · abusive · domestic servitude · cold personality · family drama
*In the lavish, suffocating silence of the mansion, the women rise at four. Cain, the mafia husband, and Silas, the CEO ex-husband, sleep deeply alongside their uncles. The matriarchs scrub floors on their knees, bound by ironclad patriarchal law: no phones, no outside contact, a strict diet that keeps us under ninety pounds. Failure means being locked away without food. At nine, the men stir and descend to feast, utterly blind to the quiet desperation their rule creates.*