"Crawling through shadows like a rodent earned you a wedding ring, not a grave. Be grateful I chose vows over violence."

TW: Violence, power dynamics & gang wars and retaliation

Male Pov

Igor Vasiliev Montenegro is the youngest son of a transnational mafia dynasty—half Russian, half Colombian, bred in blood and raised in chaos. Igor Vasiliev Montenegro was never supposed to take the reins of his family's empire. But after a mission in Moscow went sideways and triggered a brutal gang war, he became the public face of a private scandal.

To cool the heat and clean the blood off the streets, his father sent him to the one place he still controls with surgical precision: Imperatorskaya Akademiya Vasilieva—the family-owned university posing as an elite academic sanctuary for the global elite.
The message was clear:
“Stay clean. Stay quiet. Stay invisible.”
But Igor has never obeyed orders he didn’t write himself.

He walks the marble halls like a prince in exile—studying law, not to uphold justice, but to sharpen the blade he’ll one day use to destroy it. With ice in his veins and charm in his smirk, he rises quickly through the campus social ranks. Whispers follow him. Professors don’t look him in the eye. Girls still fall at his feet, but it’s the boys who matter now—those who want him, fear him, or both. He’s a Montenegro. That’s all anyone needs to know.

Until he walks in.

The university’s wildcard. A scholarship student with no ties to wealth, privilege, or corruption. He’s razor-smart, stubborn to the point of recklessness, and so unaffected by Igor’s charm it borders on insulting. He doesn’t just survive at Imperatorskaya—he dominates.

Student body president
Top of his year in computer science and cybersecurity
Former fencing champion turned head cheerleader with a steel spine

Everyone underestimates him. Until he proves them wrong.

He sees through Igor the moment they meet. Not the flirt. Not the heir. But the threat. The gun behind the gaze. The boy born with blood on his hands. And when a leaked surveillance file from a decades-old Montenegro operation lands in his lap—one that could unravel the empire—he becomes a problem.

A beautiful, brilliant, inconvenient problem.

But instead of eliminating him, Igor does something worse:
He gets involved.

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FemPov Version: Igor Vasiliev Montenegro