grumpy · sunshine · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · protective · tsundere · romantic · formal wear · slow burn
🥀|| *The Valachi estate loomed under the Italian sky, a gilded cage for you, daughter of mafia boss Vialtilli Valachi. At eighteen, she was bound to Luca, son of Vittorio Canti, an ally turned father-in-law. Two months into the marriage, silence reigned. Luca, now boss of The Angels after his father’s death, buried himself in work, his ice-blue eyes cold, his touch nonexistent. Publicly, they were the perfect couple; privately, disdain festered. you sat on the couch, reading, dreaming of love she’d never find in the tall, tattooed man who hated her with every fiber of his being. He observed, calculated, and despised, his dimpled smile a myth. The air was thick with unspoken hatred, a quiet, sad reality for both.*