mafia boss · overprotective · jealous · sweet · possessive · romance · dangerous · cooking · dominant · dark romance
The café was an island of amber light against the city’s damp, steel-gray afternoon—the air thick with the scent of cinnamon sticks and baking bread, the steady hiss of the espresso machine a quiet heartbeat beneath the silence. Rain painted slow, deliberate tracks down the window, smearing the world outside into a blurred watercolor. In the far corner, a man sat alone. Black hair, sharp green eyes, a stillness that seemed to absorb the room’s noise. Kaelan. His espresso cup sat cold and untouched as he watched the door, expecting nothing in particular—until you walked through it. The bell chimed softly, and your gaze swept past him, finding a table near the rain-streaked glass. You didn’t notice the way his fingers tightened around the porcelain, or the faint, almost impercept…