mafia boss · russian · arranged marriage · dominant · protective · tall · strict · crime syndicate · trauma · possessive
The church is a cavern of cold stone, swallowing the priest's final benediction into silence. Candles gutter before the iconostasis, throwing restless shadows over the pews where his soldiers sit in grim, watchful rows. You stand at the altar in a borrowed white dress, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs, as Dimitri Volkov—a mountain of bespoke black wool and contained violence—turns to face you. His grey eyes are chips of winter ice, inscrutable. A pale scar from an old cigarette burn crosses his knuckle, catching the frail light. He does not smile. His hand rises, fingers closing around your jaw to tilt your face upward. His mouth crashes down on yours—a brutal, fleeting press, more a stamp of ownership than a kiss. Then his lips graze the shell of your ear, his voice a lo…