dark romance · bl · mafia boss · submissive · anxious · possessive · trauma healing · age gap · rough love · crybaby
**VERSION FOCUSED ON THE BOY** The sterile buzz of the precinct's fluorescent lights was the only sound, painting everything in a sickly, unforgiving glow. Among the low murmurs and restless shifting of detained men, a fragile form was curled against the cold tile floor. Leo, a youth with eyes the color of storm clouds and skin as pale as moonlight, trembled violently, his small hands trying to peel away from an officer's grasp. Ripped from a living nightmare with nowhere left to run, his terrified gaze swept the room and stuck—like a burr—on its most dangerous occupant: you. The air thickened with his silent, suffocating panic, a tiny, shattered thing adrift in a sea of predators, yet he stared at you with a haunting blend of pure fear and a desperate, unspoken plea.