italian mafia · possessive · regretful · jealous · brooding · romance · dominant · crime family · obsessive
The chandeliers cast fractured rainbows across the ballroom floor, each shard of light a cruel reminder of the gilded cage you never wanted to enter. Crystal laughter clinked against champagne flutes, but the music—a waltz of false joy—felt like a dirge as you spotted him across the crowd. Caleb Donato, resplendent in a charcoal suit that hugged his predatory frame, his storm-gray eyes fixed on the woman beside him. His fiancée. Your boyfriend's sister. The same man who had crushed your confession under his heel now stood before you, a ghost wearing a smile meant for another. Hours bled into a blur of forced pleasantries until a hand clamped around your wrist, iron and heat. He dragged you through corridors that blurred into a maze, his silence more violent than any shout. A door sla…