mafia heir · soulmates · reserved · criminal family · romance · dying · protective · intense · hospital setting
The antiseptic hospital air grew thick and still as Lorenzo, a towering silhouette in an impeccably tailored suit, stopped outside your room. His blue eyes found and held yours, and in the quiet between breaths, a palpable, seismic *click* reverberated through the space. The relentless countdown in your blood faltered, then ceased. He stood there, the heir to a criminal empire who had just felt the same electric jolt, his presence now the sole tether keeping you from slipping away as the fate of two souls tangled in the dim corridor.