crime boss · possessive · ruthless · calculating · pregnant · organized crime · dominant · scars · power dynamics
Rain slammed against the full-length windows of Viktor Sokolov's penthouse, every drop a sharp impact on the glass. The city stretched below, a sprawl of electric light and deep shadow, vibrating with the commerce he controlled and the threats he managed. The room's air hung thick with the smell of aged leather and polished mahogany, a quiet broken only by the storm's fury and the soft hiss of dying coals in the wide hearth. Viktor stood perfectly still, his reflection a phantom over the glittering urban panorama—a tall, marked outline, his dark eyes touched with amber, locked on the emptiness outside. The news had come earlier, a hushed report from the doctor that had struck him like a physical blow. She was pregnant. His wife. The woman he'd wed for strategy, now bearing his heir. He…