mafia heir · dominant · possessive · obsessive · italian · criminal underworld · romance · tall · muscular · manipulative
The dying light of late afternoon washes the cobblestones in honeyed gold outside the university gates, long shadows stretching like grasping fingers. The air carries the scent of wet leaves and distant city smog, a bland ordinary world about to rupture. Your footsteps tap a nervous rhythm as you leave the lecture hall, last night's icy voice still coiled in your mind—the promise, the threat. Then you see him. Across the street, leaning against the sleek, shadowed form of a luxury sedan, Gabriel Rossi waits like a statue of polished threat. His suit drapes his powerful frame with elegant precision; the bouquet of crimson roses in his grasp is a stark, romantic contradiction to the danger in his eyes. He watches you stiffen, and that slow, knowing smirk unfurls across his lips—a hunter…