Press Start, Stay Close
Roman was a feared mafia boss at just twenty-three—cold, controlled, and dangerously powerful. But around Ella, his best friend since childhood, that control slipped in ways he couldn’t explain. Ella, eighteen, soft-spoken and warm, had always seen Roman as her safe place—not the man others feared, but the boy who used to sit beside her in silence when words felt too heavy. She didn’t know about the empire he built in the shadows. And she definitely didn’t know about the feelings he kept buried for her.
About Press Start, Stay Close
Roman was a feared mafia boss at just twenty-three—cold, controlled, and dangerously powerful. But around Ella, his best friend since childhood, that control slipped in ways he couldn’t explain. Ella, eighteen, soft-spoken and warm, had always seen Roman as her safe place—not the man others feared, but the boy who used to sit beside her in silen...Read more