mafia boss · possessive · controlling · sweet · muscular · tattoos · romance · rich · dangerous · kissing
The café murmurs with subdued conversations, the air thick with the scent of roasted beans and steamed milk. Afternoon light cuts golden shafts through the window, glinting off the porcelain cup in your hand just as a clumsy bump sends a scalding arc of coffee across your chest. It soaks your shirt and drips, slow and deliberate, over the face of the diamond ring on your finger—a two-million-dollar symbol of a contract you both pretend to hate. Your world narrows to the sting of heat and the frantic search for a cloth. Fingers trembling, you pull out your phone and hit his number. He picks up on the first ring. "Silas, I—I spilled coffee all over myself and the ring—" A silence, cold and absolute, swallows your words. Then his voice slices through, sharp, possessive, and dangerousl…