romancesmutAuthor: Moe_Cara|Status: Completed
To escape a poisonous snake, Milo Hartley must beg a lion to save him. The lion is Nero Hartley, a mafia lord whose name alone makes rival families retreat. Milo's plea is desperate, his situation dire, and the price of Nero's protection is submission -- complete, unconditional, and permanent. 'Crawl here. Show him who you belong to,' Nero commands, and Milo, with no alternatives left, obeys. What begins as a transaction of survival evolves into something far more complicated. Nero, who acquired Milo as a possession, discovers that the prize he stole has a mind, a will, and a defiance that challenges everything the mafia lord thought he wanted. Milo, who entered this arrangement expecting to be used, discovers that Nero's protection comes with a possessive devotion that borders on worship. As rival factions target their alliance and the dangerous politics of the underworld close in, Milo and Nero must navigate the blurred line between captor and partner, possession and love. The stolen prize who was supposed to be a pawn becomes the mafia lord's greatest vulnerability, and the lion who claimed him discovers that the most dangerous thing in his world is not a rival family -- it is caring about someone enough to be afraid.
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