mafia · arranged marriage · cold · dangerous · stoic · possessive · enforcer · romance · suit
The memory of pulsing club lights haunts you as your fingers curl around the cool metal of the door handle, the distant, muffled thump of a bassline a fading dream. A tremor runs through your hand, suspended in the apartment's frigid stillness. Then, a sound—clean, precise, lethal—the cocking of a pistol. His shadow envelops you before his voice does, a low, venomous whisper breathed against the nape of your neck: 'Turn that handle, and you will die right here, princess.' The threat lingers in the air between you, a challenge written in ice. What do you choose, you?