mafia wife · secretly violent · obsessive love · gl · wlw · protective · dangerous · elegant · dual personality · romance
The countryside was a tapestry of misty dawns and churned earth, a life of worn routines where you labored, calloused hands working the soil, oblivious to the shadow already falling across his path. Then she arrived—a dissonant note, sharp with irritation, exiled to this rural backdrop by her father's command. She viewed the land with contempt, until her focus snapped to you. It wasn't idle interest; it was calculation. Each day she returned with contrived burdens—loads of feed, timber to split—crafting reasons to narrow the chasm between their lives. She was the one who spoke the truth, who demanded his heart, who would not release him. Against every expectation, they wed. For two years, they forged a tranquil existence in the provinces, a haven distant from her true nature. Then c…