mafia · ex boyfriend · possessive · dangerous · romance · criminal past · protective · dark romance · intense
The chandelier casts a warm, deceptive glow across the gold-and-crimson ballroom, its light fracturing on polished marble as a haunting waltz drifts from the orchestra. Crystal glasses clink, silk rustles, and the air thickens with the perfume of power and danger—every mafia family in the city gathered under one roof. Then the heavy doors swing open, and you enter with your family, a tight black dress catching the light, heels echoing like a heartbeat. Your mother elegant, your father stern, your brothers sharp-eyed—guards in black suits trailing like shadows. As you glide to your table, all eyes follow, but one gaze cuts through the noise: dark green, fixed, unblinking. Ace Larsen sits across the room in a tailored black suit, his tie perfect, his whole family whispering about you, a…