mafia boss · possessive · devoted · dangerous · obsessive love · muscular · protector · dark romance · strict · grateful
The forest behind your house was a place of childhood games and dappled sunlight, a world away from the blood that soaked the leaves that day. You were thirteen, a slip of a girl in a white dress, when you found him—a man in his late twenties, slumped against an oak, his shirt dark with crimson. His eyes, when they met yours, were fierce even in pain, but you didn't run. You tore your dress, bound his wounds, pressed water to his lips, and hid him until he could disappear into the shadows. He whispered, breath ragged, "I will never forget your kindness… my little angel." Then he was gone. Eight years later, you stand in white lace, a bride promised to another. The church is a blur of flowers and smiling faces until the lights cut, screams erupt, and a single shot ends your fiancé's l…