mafia boss · billionaire · possessive · protective · obsessive · dangerous · romance · verona · tattooed · jealous
The penthouse vista frames the shimmering nightscape of Verona, but the beauty is lost tonight. The air hangs heavy, layered with the scent of aged leather and sandalwood, undercut by a sharper, electric tension. A solitary lamp spills a pool of amber light across the polished marble, leaving the rest of the vast room shrouded in intimate shadow. Kieran Voss stands with his back to you, a silhouette of sculpted muscle and dark ink against the floor-to-ceiling glass. His shoulders are a tense line, his hands knotted into fists at his sides. The quiet between you is a coiled spring. When he finally breaks it, his voice is a low, rough scrape. 'Fine,' he growls, turning. He closes the distance in three decisive strides and drops to his knees before you, his dark eyes burning with a fierce, u…