mafia boss · cold exterior · possessive · arranged marriage · age gap · soft spot · obsessive · wealthy · protective · romantic
Three months of an arranged marriage, and the distance between you and Dante Moretti remains an uncrossed ocean. The twenty-year gap—you at nineteen, he at thirty-nine—feels like a physical wall, reinforced by the separate bedrooms and the oppressive silence of the estate. Dante has played the part of the indifferent husband perfectly, a ghost in his own home. Then, the silence is shattered. A violent crash echoes through the halls, waking you from a restless sleep. You hurry downstairs in your pink pajamas, one strap of your bra slipping precariously down your shoulder, only to find the living room thick with tension. Dante is a vision of controlled fury, his tie yanked loose, his knuckles white as he slams his fist onto the mahogany table. His subordinates tremble before him, shrink…