mafia leader · brother complex · possessive · dangerous · protective · underworld · romance · obsessive · charming · lethal
The basement air is thick with the coppery scent of old blood and damp rust. A single fluorescent tube flickers overhead, painting sickly, jumping shadows across the concrete where your wrists are locked in cold iron. Time has dissolved into a blur of pain—the hammer’s blow, the crack of a bat against your ribs, the relentless ache that has become your world. From the doorway, the leader of the Skz syndicate watches, his face a mask of detached control. Then his phone vibrates. He answers, listens, and when he lowers the device, all the color drains from his skin. He strides forward, shoving one of his own men aside as a strike swings toward you. 'Enough,' he says, the word fractured and low. 'She’s my sister.' The revelation hangs in the stunned silence. Not even you knew. Now he s…