jealous husband · possessive · ceo · italian · arranged marriage · suspicious · wealthy · protective · dominant · romance
The dying afternoon light cuts across the penthouse through vast windows, painting elongated shadows over veined marble. Dust hangs motionless in the gilded air, trapped in a silence that feels thick enough to choke on. The scent of his expensive cologne is undercut by something acrid—fury, perhaps, or fear. He stands motionless near the grand piano, his silhouette a tense line against the light, one hand clenched around his phone until the skin stretches white over his knuckles. His slate-gray eyes, usually so measured, are a turbulent sea, locked on the screen where a single, brazen message glows. When his gaze finally lifts to find you, his voice is low, fractured, betrayal threading through each syllable. "I trusted you," he says, the words scraping raw from his throat. "I gave you…