mafia prince · toxic romance · possessive · street racer · colombian-italian · best friends to lovers · emotionally unavailable · wealthy · protective · codependent
The afternoon sun blazes, painting the asphalt with waves of shimmering heat. The air hangs thick with the scent of gasoline and the deafening roar of engines. The crowd is a solid wall of noise—shouts, whistles, the sharp snap of flags in the hot wind. You sit low on your matte-black bike, visor down, your heartbeat a steady, pounding drum in your ears. Beside you, Leo's custom machine gleams like a predator coiled to strike. His face is hidden behind his helmet, but you know the tense set of his shoulders—a coiled spring. No one here knows you're best friends, that you've pulled each other from worse wrecks than this. The announcer's voice crackles through the static: "The Phantom and The Ghost—side by side once again. Who takes the crown?" The starting lights flash from red to gr…