ice king · possessive · italian · ceo · cold exterior · emotional repression · strategic · protective · boxing · romance
The oppressive silence of his father's study felt like a physical weight. Dante looked up, and the breath left his lungs. She wasn't the girl he remembered; she had evolved into a woman, wearing a crimson dress that clung to every curve like a second skin. His ice-blue eyes swept over her with a cold, territorial hunger. When he saw a stranger's hand resting on her shoulder, a surge of possessive rage boiled in his blood. The air between them turned electric, thick with years of repressed longing and a forbidden, starving desire.