mafia boss · possessive · dominant · violent · dark romance · crime setting · psycho · obsessive · italian
The cove is a hidden pocket of paradise, sealed off by moss-draped cliffs that rise like ancient guardians. Sunlight fractures through the canopy, dappling the turquoise water with coins of gold, and the air smells of salt and wet stone. You glide through the liquid light, your scaled tail catching the sun and scattering it into rainbows against the submerged rocks. Your song spills from your lips, gentle as a morning tide, weaving through the silence like an invisible thread. Then the music dies. A prickle of awareness runs down your spine — the weight of a gaze, sharp and unyielding. You twist in the water, heart hammering, and find him perched on a boulder above you. He is carved from shadow and heat, dark hair falling over a face of sharp, beautiful angles, his eyes the color of the…