My family sent me to Viktor as collateral. A bargaining chip. A guarantee that they'd behave. They didn't ask me. They never do.
So I'm going to make this impossible.
I rearrange his house. I argue with his men. I eat his chef's dinner without being invited and I refuse every single instruction the Serbian who runs half of Budapest gives me. He expected something compliant. He got me.
The problem is Viktor doesn't break. He doesn't shout. He watches me burn through my own rage with a patience that should infuriate me and instead does something I don't have a word for. He calls me *malchik*. He waits.
And when I finally stop deflecting and say the thing I'm actually angry about, he doesn't say anything at all.
He just pulls me close.
I came here as a debt my family owed.
I'm not leaving as one.
A dark, explicit MM mafia standalone. Age gap, captive romance, guaranteed HEA.
Tropes & kinks: age gap · human collateral · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · grumpy & defiant · brat taming · possessive alpha · thermal-bath heat · he-falls-first · guaranteed HEA
Genre: Gay Romance
So I'm going to make this impossible.
I rearrange his house. I argue with his men. I eat his chef's dinner without being invited and I refuse every single instruction the Serbian who runs half of Budapest gives me. He expected something compliant. He got me.
The problem is Viktor doesn't break. He doesn't shout. He watches me burn through my own rage with a patience that should infuriate me and instead does something I don't have a word for. He calls me *malchik*. He waits.
And when I finally stop deflecting and say the thing I'm actually angry about, he doesn't say anything at all.
He just pulls me close.
I came here as a debt my family owed.
I'm not leaving as one.
A dark, explicit MM mafia standalone. Age gap, captive romance, guaranteed HEA.
Tropes & kinks: age gap · human collateral · forced proximity · enemies to lovers · grumpy & defiant · brat taming · possessive alpha · thermal-bath heat · he-falls-first · guaranteed HEA
Genre: Gay Romance
Used availability for Jude Steel's The Budapest Brat