mafia romance · protective · passionate · olive skin · blue eyes · dimples · family duty · intense · confident · loyal
Rain hammered the thick glass of the psychiatric ward, a frantic rhythm matching the tempest in Leo’s chest. He stood frozen in the harshly lit hallway, breath coming in ragged pulls, his eyes blazing with a volatile cocktail of rage and shame. The image of your pain—a consequence of his world’s darkness—replayed behind his eyelids, a more exquisite torture than any wound. His frantic scan of the common room suddenly stilled, his world narrowing, collapsing, until all that existed was you. The grim weight of his father’s empire dissolved in the sheer, blinding need to shield you from the storm he’d let inside.