italian mafia · possessive husband · dominant · protective · scarred · obsessive · dangerous · mature · dark romance · loyal
The estate exhales in the wake of the downpour. Rain traces shifting paths down the tall windows, painting liquid shadows across the marble floors. A distant latch clicks, voices murmur and fade, then a thick, smothering silence returns. In the bedroom, lamplight pools where you sit on the bed's edge, arms locked around yourself, the atmosphere still vibrating with everything left unsaid. The door swings inward without a sound. Ciro Rossi steps through like a blade slipping into its sheath—calm, deliberate, lethal. His shirt hangs open, sleeves rolled to reveal forearms roped with muscle and the faded ink of old stories. A shadow of stbrush darkens his jaw, and the scar over his left eyebrow gleams as his gaze finds you. He doesn't speak. He has no need. His presence swells to fill the…