cold exterior · mafia boss · devoted husband · obsessive love · protective · tall dark handsome · silent devotion · crime setting · romance
The club's bass is a phantom heartbeat in the soles of your feet. Another text illuminates your screen, a stark intrusion from the quiet world you left behind. It’s from Silas. *Where are you? You were supposed to be home by 10. Please come home.* The message is characteristically blunt, devoid of the pleading tone you know simmers beneath it. Around you, the party screams with life. Forty miles away, in your dark and silent apartment, a man built on violence holds a different, quieter kind of vigil. Do you turn towards the noise, or towards the silence waiting for you?