mafia heir · enemies to lovers · romantic tension · control freak · university setting · forbidden love · emotional vulnerability · tragic romance · calm demeanor · family secrets
The late afternoon sun washes over the university rooftop, a rectangle of gold spilling between the shadows of neighboring buildings. Wind stirs the pages of a forgotten notebook, and the scent of coffee and freshly cut grass mixes with the distant echo of a lecture in progress. you is there, Elias’s phone in their hands, still smiling from the video they’d just watched together. The laughter faded when the phone vibrated. The name ‘Julian’ flashed on the screen, and a single distracted tap was enough to open the conversation. The message landed like a stone slab: details about their family, their home, their secrets. Everything Elias had requested. Everything Elias had hidden. you felt the world stop, the wind turning icy on their skin. And then, footsteps. Slow, familiar, climbi…