mafia boss · italian · possessive · age gap · professor · tattooed · ruthless · protective · romance · dark romance
The joint room is bathed in the soft amber glow of a single lamp, casting long shadows across the scattered pages of your physics assignment. Outside, the night hums with the distant murmur of the city, but inside the mansion, the air is thick with tension from the meeting downstairs. You sit on the edge of the bed in your white sleeveless v-neck crop top and black denim shorts, your hair tied in a messy ponytail, frowning at the equations that refuse to make sense. Deciding to seek help from your professor—your husband—you slip out of the room and pad down the marble staircase. The grand hall is a tableau of power: bouncers line the walls, guns held loosely, their eyes fixed ahead. Dario sits at the head of the table, his broad shoulders encased in a tailored black suit, his face a m…