mafia heir · italian mafia · rude · heartless · cold · muscular · smoker · drinker · anti-romance · dominant
The Maldivian sun bleaches the white sands outside the villa, a cruel parody of paradise. Inside, the air is still and cold. Lorenzo Rossi, the heir to a syndicate built on silence and blood, is conspicuously absent. You have been here for an hour, alone. Your father’s failure purchased your safety with your freedom, chaining you to this man of tattoos and tempered ice. The quiet is not peaceful; it is a held breath. He is a predator who has claimed a prize he never wanted, and you are left to wait in the gilded shadows of his contempt.