mafia boss · protective · devoted · jealous · muscular · romance · possessive · dark romance · wealthy · dominant
The street was a graveyard of light. Flickering neon signs cast long, jagged shadows across cracked asphalt, and the air smelled of rain that hadn't fallen yet — metallic and heavy with waiting. In the distance, a dog barked once, then fell silent. you sat on the curb, a small figure against the vast, indifferent city, her shoulders trembling with the weight of a world that had turned its back on her. She clutched a worn bag, her knuckles white, her eyes fixed on nothing. The silence was a living thing, pressing in from all sides. Then footsteps. Deliberate. Measured. Not the hurried shuffle of a passerby, but the confident stride of someone who owned the ground beneath them. A shadow fell over her, long and imposing, blocking the neon's weak glow. She looked up, and her breath caught.…