EUPHORIA SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE

"Working overtime again? Haven't you heard that's bad for your health both physically and mentally my dear handsome Amory Roman?" A deep voice drawled in the dark.

I had no weapon to protect myself as I closed the door of his apartment. I cursed at my foolish decision in the morning to leave my gun in the bedroom safe and not carry a weapon home. The damn day must be cursed since I had an intruder in my condo.

I remained still waiting for any movement, waiting for him to attack, but the man sitting at my desk by the window did not move an inch. Resigning myself to the fact that the intruder was already here, and there was nothing I could do, I walked to the corner of the condo and switched on the living room lights.

In the sudden glow of lights, the man smiled. There was no way to describe him other than he was fucking handsome. His eyes pierced through mine and his smile showed how sexy his lips were. The mole below his lips made my mouth water and catch my breath. I was instantly attracted and drawn to him so that I forgot the current predicament of him being an intruder. The intruder smirked at my apparent scrutiny, and I managed to snap "Is there a more appropriate reaction when confronting an intruder?"

The man laughed and the sound that came out of his mouth was husky, sweet, and like an aphrodisiac. He leaned back in the chair by the window, looking like he belonged there.

"Intruder?" he drawled. He then cast a sly smile and winked. "Unless your heart wants me to intrude into it. Am sure your body would" He flirtatiously stated while his eyes shamelessly raked my body from head to toe.

"Breaking into a detective's home? You sure are brave. Do you know that you can be arrested?” I threatened him.

"Detective Amory Roman," he responded with a nod ignoring the threat. "Ten commendations for excellence in the last two years, the most decorated detective in Beijing, plus three demerits for being a general bastard to his superiors. Intriguing and damn sexy"

The statement made me annoyed. Of all the things I hated people who ran a background check on me to use it as leverage. And the man had just done that. I walked towards the desk and stood towering over him without any ounce of fear.

"Who the fuck are you?" I demanded.

He smiled. Smug, settled, calculating. "You're a clever man, Amory Roman. You can guess" he stated boastfully. And then he stood up and walked towards me and stood towering over me in confidence.

"So many crimes in the city for the last two years," he looked down at me from his long lashes. "I am a fair boss. But I like to operate in a city that has low crime. The government is not ready to do anything about it or is involved. And my organization will not grow at this rate. I cannot have my members remain stagnant and businesses with slow growth or no growth a lot. We need to expand."

"Organization," I tried to rack my brain with what his statement meant. It then hit me, and I took a step back "You're with the mob." I started in shock.

He laughed and it sounded husky, warm, and cheeky. " I AM THE MOB," he drawled, and smirked at me" Milo Bastian, at your service, ready to overturn the government with me, darling?"

For a moment it was impossible to believe what I was hearing.

"Overturn?" I yelled at him in disbelief. Everyone had heard of Milo Bastian. But the guy standing in front of me was not the description the force had been given. He was young, cheeky, and beautiful. His face was no representation of a mob leader. What kind of mob leader looked like this? From the information I had, the Mob in Beijing has all the territories on the docks. They did business and had never been arrested for anything illegal.