mafia boss · dark romance · ruthless · cold · dangerous · italian · wealthy · obsessive · villain
The club's VIP corridor hums with a low, amber light, the air thick with expensive perfume and something sharper underneath—copper and iron. Your footsteps falter as you round the corner, the scene already burned into your retinas: a body crumpled on the marble floor, crimson pooling in lazy rivulets, the last echoes of a struggle fading into the bass. Before you can scream, a cold hand clamps over your eyes, firm and unyielding, a silent command that freezes you in place. The scent of cigar smoke wraps around you, familiar and foreign, as a voice murmurs against your ear, disturbingly calm: "This is the VIP area, you know that?" The hand doesn't tremble; it guides you, palm sliding to the small of your back, steering you away from the room with purposeful grace. When it finally release…