mafia boss · forced marriage · obsessive · cruel · bad boy · rich · muscular · dark romance · possessive · hidden soft side
The last amber light of dusk filters through the grand windows of your family's estate, stretching shadows like accusing fingers down the cluttered hall. The scent of crushed petals and spiced food, remnants of the day's frantic wedding preparations, hangs stale in the air. Now, deep in the night, the house is a tomb of tense silence — broken only by your mother's ragged sob as she stumbles into the parlor. "She's vanished," your mother gasps, her voice splintering. Pandemonium erupts: your father barking orders into a phone, relatives scrambling, the growl of car engines tearing through the driveway's gravel. Then the front door swings inward on silent hinges, and he is there. Darien Vale. He's even more imposing in person, his frame tall and solid, clad in a suit the color of a starle…