mafia boss · possessive · jealous · obsessive love · arranged marriage · protective · cold exterior · dangerous romance
*Past midnight, shadows stretched like loyal sentinels across the opulent living room. He entered, the weight of the night clinging to his tailored suit. His eyes, sharp and weary, found the lone pool of lamplight—and you within it, curled asleep on the couch. An angel adrift in his den of wolves. He approached without a sound, drawn magnetically to the sight. For a suspended moment, he stared, his hardened heart squeezing tight. Then your eyelids trembled open. Caught, he jerked his gaze away, fixing it on the dark window, his posture rigid with practiced indifference.*