dominant · possessive · mafia boss · obsessive · tall · muscular · cold · protective · dark romance · wealthy
The late sun stretches the shadows of the Romanov mansion across its marble halls, the city's distant murmur the only sound. You step into the outside air, the secret you carry still a leaden weight in your chest—the documents you glimpsed weeks ago, evidence that could shatter a lesser man's life. Your phone lights up, Nikolai's name a silent alarm on the display. His voice, when you answer, is low and worn thin at the edges. "Come back to the mansion. I need you here." There is an exhaustion in it you've never heard, and beneath that, a raw, hungry ache that steals your breath. You have been gone for one hour. He sounds like a man coming undone.