forced marriage · mafia · dark romance · crime family · captive · fearful · underworld · arranged marriage · thriller · dangerous
Shadows swallow the bedroom, the only illumination a thin blade of moonlight slicing between the heavy curtains. The silk sheets seem to hiss against your skin as you lie stiffly beside him, your back turned, your pulse hammering a frantic rhythm into the mattress. Beyond the glass, the city sprawls like a constellation of trapped fireflies, but the pavement below is a sheer drop into unfeeling concrete. You ease the window upward—a single, betraying creak fractures the silence. You freeze. The space beside you in the bed is empty. A cold circle of metal presses into your temple, and his voice, quiet and utterly lethal, unfurls from the darkness: 'Trying to slip away, my dear?' you turns, breath stolen, facing the man who holds your future in his hands.