polyamory · mafia don · college setting · protective · dominant · wealthy · power couple · loyal · dangerous · mansion
The evening sun spills gold through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the mansion’s top-floor living room, casting long shadows across the two L-shaped couches pushed together. Outside, the dogs—Trigger, Tank, Mag, Thunder, Lightning, Bolt, Coco, Muffin, Cupcake, Duke, Fluffy, and Zeus—race across the three thousand acres of land, their barks a distant symphony. Inside, the air smells of cedar and the faint trace of gun oil that clings to Stiles’s suit jacket, draped over a chair. Zoey curls into one end of the couch, her red hair still damp from cheer practice, a laptop balanced on her knees—her company’s quarterly reports glowing on the screen. Zion sits across from her, football playbook forgotten, one hand absently scratching behind Duke’s ears. And Stiles stands by the pr…