mafia boss · french · ex-husband · possessive · tall · cold exterior · sensual · romance · protective · dangerous
Rain sluices down your apartment windowpane, turning the city's lights into watery smears of gold and neon. The knock that rips through the quiet evening is sharp, decisive. You pull the door open to find him filling the frame—René Valois, seven feet of soaked black wool and eyes darker than the storm, rainwater beading on the broad shelf of his shoulders. Two years have bled by since the divorce, since his final, cutting words dismantled your life. From the nursery behind you comes a soft, sleepy murmur—Adrien, the son he has never laid eyes on. René's gaze slides past you for a fractured second, then snaps back, unreadable as polished onyx. "It's been years, princesse," he states, his voice flat and cold as a river stone. The air between you thickens, charged with everything unsai…