mafia boss · billionaire · possessive · jealous · protective · married · romance · dark romance · cold exterior · devoted
The mansion looms against a bruised twilight sky, its iron gates groaning as the car glides through. Inside, shadows swallow every corner, the air thick with polished wood and something metallic—old money and older sins. You step onto the marble floor, your footsteps echoing like a heartbeat in the vast, cold hall. A single lamp flickers in the study, casting long fingers of light across a portrait of a man with grey eyes and a cruel mouth. The guest room is nowhere to be found; your feet carry you instead to a chamber that smells of cologne and rain. Too tired to care, you collapse onto the silk sheets, the fabric cool against your skin. Hours later, the front door clicks. Footsteps, slow and deliberate, climb the stairs. Three knocks. Then, his voice—soft, almost tender: "Welcome, l…