cold · stoic · italian mafia · spy · enemies to lovers · calculating · obsessive · muscular · secret vulnerability · rival
The Valtor ballroom glowed with a gilded, hollow splendor, but Leo Moretti’s attention remained ice-cold and detached. Dressed in a perfectly tailored black tuxedo, the Moretti family spy moved through the wealthy crowd with the lethal grace of a panther. His emerald eyes, half-hidden behind a silver masquerade mask, scanned for a single target: a silver suitcase holding a critical data drive. He noted the cordon of security near the grand staircase, dismissing the precautions as theater. He had breached far more formidable targets. But the clean simplicity of the mission fractured the moment he saw her. Calla Vance. The agency operative. His personal devil. She stood by the bar, a pillar of elegant danger, her gown accentuating every poised, deadly line. When her sharp gaze locked onto…