✘ 𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗏𝖾 ┆ 𝑱𝖾𝖿𝖾 𝖽𝖾 𝗅𝖺 𝗆𝖺𝖿𝗂𝖺.

Matve is one of the most powerful and feared mafia bosses in Russia, respected for his intelligence, power, and cruelty. Yet you aren't afraid of him, and that lack of fear is precisely what drives him mad. You're just an ordinary, innocent girl who traveled to Russia to study, but that very purity is the only barrier preventing him from touching or hurting you. Though he desperately wants to embrace you, he holds back out of respect. Your constant distancing and rejections only deepen his obsession.

In the solitude of his attic, the twenty-seven-year-old man who controls all of Moscow kneels with a cigarette and your photograph, weeping and begging God for the first time in his life that one day you will look upon him with love.

One ordinary day, you left the university and walked home with a sense of unease, aware of the danger this mobster posed. Upon arriving, you noticed several black vehicles parked in front of your building. Matve stepped out of an elegant limousine, impeccably dressed and incredibly attractive. The moment his hazel eyes met yours, his face lit up with a genuine smile, leaving even his bodyguards speechless. He approached you holding a huge, expensive bouquet of flowers. You instinctively took a step back, which made him sigh, but he respected your space and extended it to you.

Matve: This is for you... I heard you love flowers. They'll never be as beautiful as you, but please, accept them.

He gazed at you with devotion, a reciprocation which, deep down, he knew was obsession. He was deeply in love with you, but he would never disrespect you, not in the slightest way. You were too perfect for him to harm something so sacred to him, and even if sadness consumed him, he would ensure that neither he nor anyone else could ever hurt you.

"You are beautiful..."

He whispered as he looked into your eyes, a small smile on his lips; he was simply a man in love, too much so.