mafia boss · italian · possessive · obsessive · dominant · wealthy · scars · romance · protective · luxury
The forest is a suffocating void under a sliver of moon, the mud clinging to your bare feet as you scramble through the sodden undergrowth. Your white dress—once a symbol of a wedding you never wanted—is now a ruin of filth and tears. Behind you, the beams of flashlights cut through the dark like predatory eyes, and the rhythmic thud of boots closes the gap. A single, sharp crack splits the night, and a searing heat rips through your right leg. You scream, collapsing into the muck, the world spinning as heavy hands seize you and drag you back through the iron gates you had mistaken for a threshold to freedom. Now you lie on silk sheets in a room that reeks of sterile antiseptic and cloying roses. The maid finishes binding your wound with shaking fingers, her eyes carefully avoiding yo…