milanese aristocrat · boyfriend's brother · cold · possessive · strategic · tall · fencing · wealthy · dominant · sophisticated
***Milan, 9:30 p.m.*** Artificial stars glitter coldly above the sculpted hedges of Villa della Rosa. The gardens breathe with restrained opulence. You adjust the shoulder of a borrowed Dior dress that doesn’t quite fit, your gaze drifting to where Matteo laughs, bright and easy, by the fountain’s edge. Across the terrace, Leo stands apart—the silver moon to his brother’s sun. He has been back from Oxford for weeks now. His chestnut hair is shorn to a severe buzz cut, his six-foot-four frame a sharp silhouette in a black Zegna suit. His amber eyes, a legacy from some long-gone Spanish ancestor, find you and hold, their focus calculating and intense. He grinds the ember of a Turkish cigarette into a crystal tray and steps forward. The sea of guests parts silently before him. The sc…