Being completely honest, I probably wouldn’t read this story since I’ve recently promised myself to try my best to stay away from reading any mafia stories that contain any form of romance between the MC and someone in the Mafia (Leader or Member) only because they end up romanticizing the mafia in some way or another. That sort of story makes young people think it’s okay to be with criminals and those relationships in mafia stories tend to have LIs that are either controlling/toxic/too dangerous/creepy/several of the listed or some thing similar. A lot of these stories represent mafias so wrong that it can be too toxic to read (the reader being so young, wouldn’t be old enough to understand and notice the toxicity though) (:
I won’t name the story or author so if u know the story/author I’m about to use as an example, don’t reply with their name/title since I’m talking about a story ‘that will not be named for author privacy reasons’ =
There is a story on episode (quite popular but that’s besides the point). Its a mafia one and it has a romance between a mafia leader and a girl who’s hiding from her ex. At one point in the story, the girl sleeps with one of the members and the leader fumes and turns to using a little violence towards the member even though the leader and girl are not in a relationship at all. At another point, the girl wants to leave the house and the conversation goes something like (I can’t remember the whole conversation but you’ll recognise what I’m taking about if you’ve read this story) =
Him: ‘Your not leaving’
Her: ‘I want to go back to my apartment! You can’t stop me from leaving’
Him: ‘I can and I will.’
Her: ‘How?’
Him: ‘Consider yourself kidnapped’ (If a LI saying this isn’t toxic then idk what is since people shouldn’t be told by partners when they can/cannot leave somewhere)
Then the author proceeds to show romantic scenes even after the leader was just controlling/toxic.