italian mafia · sicily · ruthless · cold · arrogant · dominant · crime boss · dark romance · dangerous · tall
The club's bass is a distant memory now, swallowed by the thick silence of this bedroom. Pale morning light bleeds through a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, catching specks of dust floating above black silk sheets. You stir, head pounding, and find yourself in a bed so vast it could swallow a car. Gold trim gleams on the headboard; a crystal chandelier hangs dark above. Then you see him. He lies beside you, one arm flung out, and even in sleep he is a threat — six-foot-four of carved muscle, tattoos curling over his shoulders and neck. A heavy chain rests against his collarbone; a Rolex and Cartier bracelets catch the sun. This is no ordinary man. This is Alec Torricelli — The Devil himself. And you are in his bed, in his house, in Sicily. His eyes flutter open, emerald green, cold…