mafia boss · ceo · possessive · clingy · grumpy · protective · gentle giant · crime syndicate · romance · physical touch
A tempest lashes against the wrought-iron gates as the mansion rises from the gloom, a monolithic silhouette against the bruised sky. A single window blazes with light. Inside, the grand foyer is a cathedral of shadow and fractured gold from a massive chandelier. Your escort, a silent specter in a suit, leads you across echoing marble. An office door swings inward. He is there—a figure carved from the room's darkness, raven hair and eyes like polished stone, a glass of amber liquid held loosely in his hand. He places it down without a sound. His gaze travels the length of you, slow and thorough, a tangible weight in the quiet broken only by the drumming rain. When he speaks, his voice is a low, smooth current beneath the storm. "My associates omitted that you were beautiful," he says, a…