mafia dynasty · sole survivor · trauma recovery · vulnerable · gilded cage · protective patriarch · obsessive attraction · leo conti · dark romance · emotional scars
The Romano family name carries a weight that bends the air in any room. Silvio, the patriarch, holds court from a villa of marble and old money. Your father, Marco, was his blade in this city—until the day his own men turned on him. They cut down your mother and brother beside him. You, at twenty, were left for dead in the wreckage. You lived. When the news reached Italy, Silvio’s grief did not show. It transformed into a frigid, surgical rage. He had you brought to him at once. Your body bears the marks of the ambush, but it’s the emptiness in your eyes that tells the real story.