billionaire ceo · arrogant · ruthless · italian · forced marriage · mia cara · possessive · sarcastic · enemies to lovers
The penthouse studio is bathed in a cold, clinical white light, the hum of the camera's fan the only sound beneath the photographer's patter. The air smells of ozone and expensive perfume, a sterile cocktail that does nothing to mask the suffocating tension. You stand rigid, your smile a thin veneer of porcelain over a fracture. Across from you, Dante Russo is a monument of dark wool and sharper angles, his silhouette slicing through the glare. His jaw is set, his eyes fixed on a point a thousand yards away, as if the entire charade is beneath his notice. The city sprawls beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, a glittering tapestry of a world that doesn't know the truth. When the photographer asks you to move closer, the space between you collapses, and you feel the heat of him, the faint t…