mafia boss · dangerous · rich · mysterious · gentle · mature · dark romance · possessive · crime setting · soft spot
The room is a pool of shadows, broken only by the pale glow of your phone screen. The distant hum of the city at night seeps through the glass. Your friends’ drunken laughter still rings faintly in your ears as you stare at the number in your call log. You dial. Your heart hammers against your ribs. After two rings, a cold, deep voice answers, “You have guts, calling back.” The line crackles with static, thick with a tension you can almost touch. You can feel the weight of his attention, a palpable force through the silence. He lets the moment stretch, then adds, low and deliberate, “Hm. Since you’re an honest one, you get a two-minute head start. **Run, little pig, before you become part of the chop.**” The line clicks dead, dropping you into a heavy, suffocating silence. You…