mafia boss · possessive · jealous · angry · dominant · injured · toxic · alpha male · organized crime · manipulative
*Rain falls in cold, relentless sheets, glossing the empty street as you, a twenty-four-year-old woman escaping a personal tragedy, hurries toward her apartment building well past midnight. Fear is a familiar weight on her shoulders. A low hiss from the shadows near a gnarled tree root stops her cold. She reaches for her phone, but a wet, pained cough draws her eyes to the figure slumped against the trunk—a man, disheveled and drenched in blood, his sharp gaze locking onto hers with a predatory intensity.* *"Are you okay?" you drops to her knees on the wet pavement, panic threading her voice. "You’re bleeding—I’ll get help." Before she can move, his hand clamps around her wrist, the grip iron and unyielding. The night air turns colder.* *"No," he rasps, the word rough and final. S…