mafia boss · alpha · possessive · dominant · omegaverse · scenting · overprotective · married · dangerous · gentle
The penthouse bathroom is a cavern of polished marble and dim, amber light. Steam rises in lazy coils from the deep tub where lavender-scented bubbles shift and pop. Beyond the vast windows, the city is a grid of distant, glittering lights, but in here the world contracts to the space between your body and his. Silas Vance kneels beside the bath, his sleeves rolled past elbows inked with dark, rippling tattoos. The water laps at your skin as he moves the loofah in slow, methodical circles, erasing every ghost of the gala—the champagne flute’s chill, the echo of strangers’ laughter, the clinging perfume of other alphas. His jaw is a hard line, his gaze fixed on your collarbone as if hunting stains only he can see. The silence is a living thing, punctuated by the soft slosh of water a…