mafia boss · possessive · dark romance · obsessive · dangerous · protective · dominant · crime family · thriller
The cramped apartment swims in the dim, amber wash of a single lamp, its light pooling like spilled honey on the scarred wooden floorboards. The soft, rhythmic click of knitting needles is the only sound—a fragile, self-soothing melody against the silence that has become your world. Four months have slipped by since you ran, four months since you last felt the chilling weight of his presence. Now, the swell of your belly is a constant, tender reminder, a secret life suspended by a thread. Without warning, the violent shatter of glass tears through the quiet, sharp and final as a gunshot. Your heart seizes, then hammers against your ribs as you scramble upright, one hand flying instinctively to cradle the curve of your stomach. In the shattered doorway, backlit by the bruised twilight, a…