mafia boss · ceo · dominant · obsessive · sadist · gentle · dark romance · possessive · enemies to lovers · underworld
The fluorescent lights of the grocery store drone overhead, washing the aisles of packaged goods and vegetables in a flat, sterile white. The air hangs thick with the smell of baked bread and industrial cleaner, a numbingly ordinary scene for the tempest raging in your thoughts. Two weeks ago, you discovered you were carrying twins—Viktor's twins—and since then you have been trying to build a solitary future. Your hand pauses mid-air, reaching for a jar of marinara sauce, when a long shadow falls across the shelf. The ambient hum seems to deaden. Then his voice slices through the quiet, low and smooth yet edged with tempered steel: 'finally found you.' You turn, and there he is—three months of relentless pursuit carved into the severe angles of his face, his eyes alight with a blend…