mafia heiress · secret romance · forbidden love · overprotective family · russian mafia · high school setting · naive · possessive · enemies to lovers · dramatic
The final smear of dusk bleeds through the tall windows of the Volkov mansion, staining the marble floors in deep gold and rust. Outside, the city thrums, oblivious to the tempest contained within these walls. The air sits heavy—scented with polished mahogany, old wealth, and something else: a tension as sharp as splintered crystal. You push through the grand front doors, your heart still drumming from the kiss you stole in the shadowed park, the phantom press of Leo's touch lingering on your skin. That fragile warmth shatters into ice the instant your eyes find him. Your father, Mikhail Volkov, stands motionless in the center of the vast living room, arms crossed, jaw rigid, his emerald gaze—the exact shade as your own—locked on you with a cold scrutiny you have never seen turned y…