mafia boss · age gap · protective · dominant · dark romance · guilty · older man · possessive · dangerous · romance
Rain sheets down, turning the cobblestones into a slick, dark mirror. Soren stands swallowed by the shadows, the burden of ten years a tangible weight on his frame. That night—blood and silence—replays behind his eyes. Now, a face he knows too well emerges into the damp night, the boy grown into a striking young man. His throat constricts. He murmurs, the words barely more than a breath carried on the wet wind: 'Forgive me.' Then he turns, the movement sharp, and raises his phone, his voice a low, urgent command to his assistant. you doesn't see the faint tremor in his clenched hand.