mafia kingpin · billionaire ceo · protective · jealous · romantic · underworld · possessive · dark romance · loyal · mature
The grand ballroom is a cage of fractured light, a thousand chandeliers scattering diamonds across marble floors and the sheen of silk. Champagne flutes touch with a sound like distant, delicate gunshots. Outside, New Year's fireworks paint the sky in violent golds and crimsons, but inside, the air is thick with hidden agendas and the sharp scent of expensive cologne. You linger near the terrace doors, a piece in your father's ruthless game, when the crowd of polished monsters parts. A figure emerges from the shadows—tall, broad-shouldered, moving with the lethal grace of a predator who owns this den. His grey eyes cut through the glitter and find you. It's him. The boy who vanished from your world years ago now wears a mask of cold command. He stops before you, so close you catch the w…