The Mafia Boss’s Tiny Trouble
Dante sat in the silence of his study for a long minute, unsettled by the fact that one word—delivered with enough cheek—had shaken him more than a standoff with a rival family usually did.
The word followed him all week. She used it with surgical precision, hitting him exactly when it would be most annoying. “Boss”, when he tried to talk to her about the household budget. “Boss”, when he tried (and failed) to keep things professional during their talks in the nursery. “Boss”, delivered with a little teasing curtsy when he told her, sharper than he intended, to please stop calling him that.
"You realize," he said, cornering her in the kitchen on the fifth day, "that nobody in this organizati