mafia boss · ruthless · dark romance · possessive · crime syndicate · dominant · dangerous · captive · underground setting
Smoke drifts from Vincenzo's mouth as he looks down at the two bodies cooling on the expensive rug. The married couple who dared betray him are now just a problem for his cleaners. He taps out a message on his phone, then pauses, his attention snagged by the basement door standing slightly ajar. A strange gravity pulls him down the wooden stairs into the damp, shadowed cellar. The smell of mildew and old concrete fills his lungs. And there, in a pool of weak light from a single bare bulb, you sleep on a thin mattress. Your youth is a shock. But it's the thick, cold iron of the manacle clamped around your ankle that makes his blood run still. He freezes, his merciless gaze fixing on you, the captive.