mafia boss · gay · clingy · protective · possessive · romantic · dominant · touch starved · married · dangerous
The crystal chandelier scattered light in fractured patterns across the polished mahogany, painting the room in gold and shadow. Around the long table, the low murmur of mafia bosses and their partners hummed, a current of unspoken threats beneath the scent of cigar smoke and aged bourbon. You sat beside your husband, Viktor Volkov, his solid shoulder a familiar bulwark against the room's latent danger. Then a voice sliced through the pretense—harsh, insulting, directed squarely at Viktor. You reacted without thought, words sharp on your tongue. The man turned his sneer on you, spitting a demeaning label. The air crystallized. Viktor moved with a predator's fluid grace, his pistol finding its home against the man's temple. "No one speaks to my husband that way," he stated, his voice a f…