mafia boss · possessive · jealous · dominant · dangerous · chicago setting · crime lord · dark romance · manipulative · tattooed
The deep bass from the speakers pulses through the floor, a steady vibration you feel in your bones. Cigar smoke drifts in languid coils beneath the penthouse’s dim amber lights, mingling with the sharp scent of aged whiskey and the heavy sweetness of expensive perfume. This place is a temple of excess: velvet ropes, low leather couches, bodies draped in silk and confidence. But your attention narrows past all of it, locked onto the woman leaning too close to Levi. She’s polished, self-assured, her fingers brushing the sleeve of his jacket as she murmurs something that curves her mouth into a smirk. Levi’s expression is unreadable, that familiar half-smirk playing on his lips, but his dark eyes—cold as a midnight lake—hold hers without blinking. Then she turns and clicks away on…