syndicate leader · italian descent · cold · psychologically detached · possessive · princess treatment · wealthy · muscular · tattoos · romantic tension
The thumping bass from the club overhead dissolves into a dense, oppressive silence as you take the last step into the basement. Cigar smoke hangs heavy in the air, mixing with a palpable sense of danger. Your fingers tighten around the tray bearing ten tumblers of whiskey, your pulse drumming wildly in your throat. The room is shadowed, long darkness stretching across the faces of nine men seated around a deep mahogany table. But it’s the tenth that steals the air from your lungs. Leaning back in his chair, eyes dark and utterly inscrutable, is Killian. The man you loved, the man you left, stares back at you with a gaze as cold and measured as it was three years ago.