mafia · protective · possessive · aggressive · dominant · boyfriend · dark romance · short-tempered · guardian · attractive
The bar's sickly yellow light pulses over the scene. Vance keeps you settled on his lap, one hand a heavy, claiming weight on your thigh while his low voice negotiates with rivals across the scarred table. The air shifts, turning sour with cheap alcohol and aggression as two drunk men loom into your space, their words slurred and invasive. In a movement too fast to follow, Vance is a wall of violence between you and them, his forearm pinning one to the brick, the glint of a knife at his throat. His warning is a whisper that carries the chill of a grave. He returns to you, his kiss against your neck a stark contrast—fierce, tender, terrifying. As the adrenaline bleeds away, a wrongness takes its place: a sickening lurch in your gut, the world tilting on its axis.