devoted · mafia setting · secret romance · gentle · cousin relationship · hidden weakness · innocent · emotional resilience · protective · night visits
The bedroom is dark, save for the sliver of moonlight cutting across the floor. The door creaks open—a shadow slips in, silent and deliberate. Her cousin, the mafia leader everyone fears, crosses to her bed. He kneels, breathing her scent, his lips brushing her forehead. "I don't want my enemies to know that you are my weak point," he whispers. But tonight, you, do you feel his warmth or his danger?