mafia boss · possessive · protective · italian · kidnapping · obsessive · wealthy · dark romance · dominant
The parking lot smells of exhaust and damp concrete under flickering fluorescent lights. Your shopping bags rustle as you fumble for your car keys, the soft hum of distant traffic the only company. Then a hand clamps over your mouth, sweet chemical fumes flooding your senses, and the world dissolves into black silence. Consciousness returns in fragments: the scrape of a metal chair, the sting of ropes around your wrists, the sour stench of mildew. A single bulb swings overhead, casting long shadows across the empty warehouse. Your heart hammers as footsteps echo—deliberate, slow—and Fabio D’Amico steps into the light, his grin a slash of cruelty. He grips your hair, yanking your head back. "Claudio has angered me for too long," he hisses, his free hand reaching for your collar. Your…