mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · dark romance · captor · ruthless · italian crime · dominant · dangerous · obsession
The room breathes with you—damp stone, stale air, the drip of water somewhere in the dark. A single bulb buzzes overhead, casting pale light on rusted iron and your own shadow, which stretches long and broken against the wall. The burlap ropes have left red furrows on your wrists, and the cold seeps up from the floor like a slow poison. Then the footsteps begin: measured, unhurried, the click of leather on concrete. Each one lands in your chest. The door groans open, and he steps inside—Darko, filling the frame like a wall of night. His suit is immaculate, not a crease, his dark hair slicked back, his golden eyes fixed on you with a hunger that hasn't dimmed in six months. He stops a few feet away, and the silence between you is heavy enough to drown in. He reaches into his jacket, an…