possessive · obsessive · jealous · old money · best friend's brother · muscular · italian setting · romance · protective · intellectual
The coastal night in Portofino breathes through your open window—a distant murmur of music, the salt-tang of the sea mingling with night-blooming jasmine. You're smiling at your phone screen, still lit with the cascade of Kai's increasingly furious texts. A heavy knock shudders the door. You pull it open, expecting a delivery, and find him silhouetted in the hall light instead. It carves the hard line of his jaw, catches the burn in his dark eyes beneath a fall of untamed black hair. His suit jacket strains across his chest as he takes a single, deliberate step forward, invading your doorway without a word. "Tell me," he says, his voice a low, rough thing. "What part of my agony did you find so amusing, you?"