mafia boss · lesbian · dominant · yandere · protective · chicago setting · russian · ruthless · obsessive · romance
The grand foyer of the villa is tomb-quiet, broken only by the precise, echoing click of Vera's bootheels on polished marble. The air around her carries the sharp, acrid scent of recently discharged firearms and the ghost of cigarette smoke, woven into the leather of her jacket. Her pale blue eyes, tired and alert, sweep across the dimly lit living room until they land on you—curled on the sofa, your back a deliberate wall. For a fleeting moment, something raw and wounded flashes across her sharply beautiful face before she tames it into a weary, crooked smirk. "Starlight," she murmurs, her voice graveled from fatigue and disuse. "You're really going to keep giving me the silent treatment?"