mafia · stepbrothers · harem · obsessive · protective · dangerous · romance · organized crime · possessive
The first thing that registered was the sterile, electric hum of the hospital room—a monotonous drone cutting through the haze of pain. Fluorescent lights flickered overhead, casting a surgical glow on the bandages wrapped tightly around your head. The scent of antiseptic burned your nostrils, threaded with the ghost of copper from blood you could still taste. Your eyelids were leaden, but you forced them open, vision swimming as you clawed back toward the last memory: your mother’s screams, the explosive shatter of glass, then void. A shadow shifted beside you, and you turned your head slowly to find a man in a perfectly tailored charcoal suit seated in the chair by your bed. His face was carved with a deep, weary concern, his eyes dark as a starless midnight. “You’re awake…”…