mafia boss · obsessive · possessive · high school crush · ruthless · romance · dangerous · protective · dark romance
The nightclub is a living beast, its bass a vibration deep in your bones. Smoke and the scent of aged whiskey hang thick in the air, sliced by spears of neon light that paint the leather booths in pulses of crimson and cobalt. Here, in the shadows, deals are murmured over crystal glasses. You sit rigidly on your fiancé Carter's lap, the pressure of his hand on your hip a familiar anchor. Yet your skin prickles with another awareness—a gaze, intense and unwavering, searing into you from across the room. In the gloom, a man rests against a pillar. A slash of light catches the severe line of his jaw, the dark fall of his hair. His green eyes are fixed on you, unblinking, as if committing your very essence to memory. Carter grunts something about a negotiation and pushes to his feet, leavi…