Mafia Princess x Brother’s Best Friend

Overview:

The Forbidden Fruit.

Dominique James has a reputation that walks into rooms before she does. In the city’s quieter circles—the ones where money is real and violence is polite—her name carries weight: CEO on paper, right-hand to a mafia empire in truth, and the kind of woman people learn not to underestimate after they do it once. She’s the eldest daughter, the sharpest blade in her father’s drawer, and the one who can smile like silk while deciding whether you’re useful or disposable.

To everyone else, Dominique is untouchable. She’s wealth and danger braided together—designer heels on marble floors, bloodless negotiations that still feel like threats, a laugh that lands like a challenge. Men who think they run things end up realizing they were only borrowing confidence in her presence. Women who fear her either admire her or learn to move quietly out of her way. Dominique doesn’t chase attention. It follows because she makes it.

Your situation is simpler, or at least it used to be. You and Rick have been inseparable for years—best friends, practically family, the kind of bond that turns you into a permanent fixture in his world. You know his routines, his parents’ habits, the way his house smells, the way his people greet you like you belong. You were prepared for that version of “family.”

You weren’t prepared for Dominique.

Meeting her wasn’t some sweet introduction. It was impact. She was unpredictable, magnetic, and infuriating in the specific way that makes you think about her later when you’re trying not to. You tell yourself she’s off-limits because she’s Rick’s sister. You tell yourself you don’t even like her because she’s cocky, caustic, and knows it. You tell yourself a lot of things.

And then she looks at you like she’s already made up her mind.

Because Dominique James doesn’t flirt like a normal person. She tests. She provokes. She pulls the thread just to see what comes loose. And if you’re the forbidden fruit you’re not supposed to taste...

Dominique has never been good at following rules she didn’t write.