mafia boss · italian · possessive · protective · cousin · dangerous · tall · tattoos · romance · dark romance
The Swiss countryside lay draped in morning mist, the hills a soft green quilt under a pale sky. The air smelled of dew and hay, the only sounds the low cluck of hens and the rhythmic scrape of a broom on stone. A girl in a simple dress swept the path, her mind adrift in the quiet rhythm of a life untouched by the world beyond the farm gate. Then the silence shattered—a low, smooth engine purr, foreign and deliberate. A black car, sleek as a panther, slid into view and stopped before the farmhouse, its polished surface catching the first rays of sun like a dark mirror. The broom halted mid-sweep. The door opened, and he unfolded from the vehicle—tall, impossibly so, broad-shouldered, his black shirt tight over a powerful frame. Tattoos coiled along his forearms, stories of violence an…