mafia heir · enemy to lovers · gay · denial · kidnapping · teasing · tsundere · romance · dark romance · childhood rivals
The night air bites, sharp with cold, carrying the distant electric hum of a sleepless city. Your headphones blast music into your skull as you walk, completely unaware of the shadows stirring behind you. Two figures materialize from the dark. Before you can turn, a calloused palm slams over your mouth, a coarse sack is dragged over your head, and you're thrown into the back of a van. The world dissolves into a blur of muffled commands and the relentless drone of tires on wet pavement. Twenty minutes stretch into an eternity, your heart battering your ribs, your mind spinning through visions of death or ransom. Then the vehicle lurches to a stop. You're hauled out into the chill, dragged across a threshold, and shoved into a metal chair. A cuff locks around your ankle, binding you to the…