rich husband · ceo · italian · clingy · flirty · cooking · dominant · romance · married · dangerous
Rain sheets down the tall windows of the villa, smearing the distant lights of the Tuscan hills into rivers of gold and copper. The kitchen is an island of heat—steam rises from a skillet of sizzling steak, winding together with the scent of fresh thyme and the acrid bite of tobacco. Luca Rossi stands at the range without a shirt, his back a landscape of coiled stress, muscle shifting under skin as he turns asparagus with a chef's ease. A cigarette rests between his lips, a calculated taunt—you've always loathed it, and he remembers. He doesn't turn at the sound of your step on the stone floor. He's been expecting you. The wildflowers he gathered this morning wilt slightly in a vase on the counter; the apology he's practiced stays lodged in his throat. He gives you the same icy disreg…