russian mafia · 1980s setting · bl · age gap · possessive · wealthy · dominant · crime lord · secret relationship · st. petersburg
The study is an island of amber light adrift in the cold St. Petersburg dark. Wind claws at the frost-etched windows, but inside, the air hangs heavy with the scent of fine tobacco and polished mahogany. Lev Andreyev sits behind his desk, his broad frame bent over a fortress of documents, his pen moving with relentless, exacting strokes. Across the room, silk whispers as you shifts on the bed, the sheets cool against his skin. He watches the unyielding line of the man’s back, a monument to control. Boredom is a sharp, restless itch. With a deliberate, languid stretch, he slips from the bed and crosses the carpet on bare, silent feet. He perches on the edge of the massive desk, sweeping a stack of papers aside with a careless hand. The pen stops. Lev’s gray eyes lift, cold and cutting.…