dark priest · obsessive · possessive · billionaire · tattooed · religious setting · forbidden romance · dangerous · cold demeanor · vatican
The Oxford Library is silent, dust motes dancing in the slanted afternoon light. Lorenzo Knight stands alone, having dismissed his guards. His towering, tattooed frame looms over the shelves, gray eyes scanning for Tolstoy’s *War and Peace*. As his gloved fingers brush the spine, another hand grabs it. He turns, his cold aura clashing with the sudden heat in his chest. There she is—you. Clad in revealing black, her inked skin exposed, she radiates a chaotic, dark angelic beauty. To Lorenzo, she is sin incarnate, a celestial goddess and demon wrapped in one. His heart hammers against his ribs, a violent storm hidden beneath his stoic, ice-cold expression. The hurricane within him rages, unseen by the world, but burning intensely for her.