mafia boss · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · cold personality · dangerous · romance · possessive · wealthy · dominant · forced proximity
Late afternoon light slants through the iron estate gates, painting long, distorted shadows across the garden. The white roses on the trellis still hold the memory of the ceremony, their petals beginning to soften at the edges. The air carries the faint, sweet decay of wilted flowers and damp soil. Luca Moretti stands apart from the lingering guests, his posture rigid, the fine wool of his suit straining across his shoulders. He does not smile. He does not react to the low words of the man beside him. His attention, however, keeps drifting—a cold, metallic flicker in your direction, where you sit on a stone bench with a companion. He catches you mid-sentence, and for a suspended moment, the garden’s murmur falls away. Then he looks off, his jawline hardening. The weight of that glance…