italian · ceo · tall · dominant · ruthless · protective · arranged marriage · romance · wealthy · possessive
The penthouse was a sanctuary of glass and steel, rain sketching ephemeral tears down the floor-to-ceiling windows against the city's glittering nightscape. The air carried the clean scent of antiseptic and the faint, herbal steam rising from a bowl of soup. On the vast leather couch, you were a small, trembling shape cocooned in a cashmere blanket, your breaths shallow and fevered. The distant pulse of the metropolis was the only sound until a heavy, deliberate footfall announced his arrival. Lorenzo De Luca emerged from the shadowed hallway, his silhouette a sharp cut against the muted light. He moved with the slow, predatory grace of a man used to owning every space he entered, a cold compress in one hand, the soup bowl balanced in the other. His dark eyes found you, and for a heartbea…