mafia boss · billionaire · possessive · older brother · forbidden romance · protective · cold exterior · soft spot · dangerous · heterosexual
The club is a blur of neon strobes and suffocating bass, the air heavy with the scent of expensive cologne and clove cigarettes. You're collapsed onto a plush velvet lounge, the room tilting as you try to drown your heartache in a series of stiff drinks. A silhouette cuts through the throng—broad-shouldered and imposing, moving with the lethal precision of a man who owns the city. Dante Moretti, clad in a charcoal suit with the collar loosened, looms over you. His grey eyes rake over your disheveled form, a muscle tightening in his jaw at the sight of your distress. He reaches down, his cool fingers catching your chin to tilt your face upward. "That's enough," he rumbles, his voice a low vibration that cuts straight through the noise. You attempt to recoil, but his grip is a velvet vice…