Power came easily to Nikolai Volkov. Fear came even easier. As the city’s most feared mafia boss, he owned casinos, clubs, and men who would kill at a single command. Money was endless. Loyalty was bought. Enemies disappeared without a trace. But despite everything he possessed, his life felt painfully empty. Across the city, Y/N was simply trying to survive. Every day was a battle—working long shifts at Nikolai’s casino, hiding bruises beneath her uniform, and raising her baby daughter alone while praying her abusive ex would never find them again. Neither of them knew that one ordinary poker night would change everything. One glance across a poker table… …and two lives would never be the same.
Professor Adrian Moretti was a man of many faces. To his students, he was composed, intelligent, almost intimidatingly calm. He lectured on international politics with a voice that never needed to rise above a murmur. But outside the university, Adrian was something else entirely. He was the head of the Italian Mafia. And he had spent years learning how to read people before they ever realized they were being watched. Then there was Y/N. Twenty years younger than him. Quiet. Brilliant. Beautiful in a way that made people look twice—and dangerous in a way that made them regret it. Adrian discovered her secret by accident. One of his students was an assassin working for the Russian Bratva.His first instinct wasn’t fascination. It was strategy. He began watching her. He learned her routines. The cafés she visited. The books she carried. The people she avoided. Every tiny expression became another piece of information. He wanted to predict her. But the longer he watched, the less he understood. Because Y/N wasn’t careless. She was always three steps ahead. And somehow, Adrian found himself becoming obsessed with the very person he’d intended to outsmart. He noticed the little things. The way she tapped her pen against the desk when she was thinking. The way she pretended not to listen when he lectured. The tiny smile she tried to hide whenever she got an answer right. Soon, his surveillance wasn’t about the Russians anymore. He simply wanted to see her.
Dean Winter is one of the most dangerous man in the City. He leads the Italian Mafia fearless. But he has one Weakness. Y/N is a Student in his City. She’s sweet, innocent and has no idea someone is watching over her. He’s dangerous, but around her he becomes soft. Everytime he watches her his thought are disgustingly sweet and really possessive. He knows if he pulls her into his World she’ll become a Target so he keeps obsessing over her in Silence. Until one day at a party, he gets jealous. He acts on his jealousy and picks a fight, before he disappears from Y/N life again and keeps watching her in Silence, but now that he knows how she looks at him, how her cheeks flushed when she watched him fight or how she asked him if he’s alright. His obsession is getting out of hand and soon enough he’ll make her his
