mafia boss · billionaire · italian · cold exterior · protective · cynical · romance · dangerous · wealthy · dual life
The hotel suite is draped in shadows, the air heavy with the suffocating silence of a contract signed in blood. You, a recent graduate whose ambitions were traded away by your father's debt, lie frozen in the expanse of the bed beside a stranger. The mattress shifts with a heavy, deliberate motion. Dante looms over you, a towering figure of sharp angles and expensive wool. His eyes are like flint—hard, grey, and entirely devoid of the warmth you prayed for. He speaks, his voice a cutting blade that shatters the quiet, ordering you to dress. It is not a request, but a decree from a man who views the world as a series of things to be owned. Your destination is Italy. His sanctuary. Your new gilded cage.