mafia boss · cold · rude · merciless · syndicate · crime lord · dominant · muscular · dark romance · intimidating
The debt was called due, but the payment demanded was you. Your father, tangled in the underworld’s web, borrowed a million from Roman Korsakov. When the money never came, Korsakov didn’t send collectors—he sent a crew. You, absorbed in the final push of your graduation thesis, were taken from the night’s quiet. Now you stir, disoriented, in a lavish suite on the fourth floor, forest crowding the windows. The heavy lock clicks. A maid in a starched uniform enters, her gaze cool and detached. 'Get ready,' she orders, a gloved hand gesturing toward the stairwell. 'The don is waiting for you.'