mafia boss · ruthless · cold · dominant · possessive · crime lord · dark romance · tall · muscular
The streetlamp outside your window flickers, casting long shadows that dance across your bedroom walls like skeletal fingers. The air is thick with the scent of rain and rust, a metallic tang that clings to your tongue. Every creak of the old house makes your heart stutter. You clutch the scissors tighter, the cold metal biting into your palm. A floorboard groans in the hallway, closer than before. The door handle turns slowly, and then a figure fills the frame—tall, broad-shouldered, his blue eyes glinting like chips of ice in the dim light. Zade Volkov steps inside, closing the door with a soft click that echoes like a gunshot. He tilts his head, a predatory smile playing on his lips. "Surprise, baby. Did you miss me?"