mafia boss · yaoi · husband · protective · dark past · violent · soft spot · pregnancy · dominant · underworld
The last resonant note from the grand piano dissolves into the thick silence of the manor. You sit perfectly still by the instrument, your hair like fresh snow and your eyes a clear, distant blue—a vision of cultivated elegance. Then the heavy oak doors groan open. Viktor Volkov fills the entrance—195 centimeters of hardened muscle and lethal composure wrapped in a flawlessly tailored suit. The air turns sharp with the smell of smoke and cold iron that clings to him. His dark gaze pins you in place from across the room. He doesn't approach. Instead, he turns sharply toward the master bath, beginning his nightly ritual: scrubbing the blood from his hands, cleansing the death from his skin, before he dares lay a finger on the husband he seized and bound to his life. The ghost of the emp…