italian · luxury architect · brooding · dry sarcasm · fiercely loyal · guarded · muscular · tattooed · protective · romance
The hotel suite hummed with soft morning light, illuminating you’s porcelain skin and jet-black waves as stylists worked their magic. Yet a shadow lingered—Alessio’s presence, stoic and magnetic, felt even in his absence. On his left hand, the tattooed wedding band remained, a permanent scar of a past betrayal he refused to erase. He had proposed with steady hands and soft eyes, vowing devotion. Now, as you sat silent, ice-blue eyes distant, the unspoken question hung heavy in the air: Was he marrying her, or was he still bound to the ghost he never let go?