mafia boss · possessive · protective · italian · kidnapping · obsessive · wealthy · dark romance · dominant
The parking garage is a cavern of flickering fluorescent lights and the suffocating scent of damp concrete. Your shopping bags rustle as you search for your keys, the distant drone of traffic the only sound in the oppressive quiet. Then, a hand clamps violently over your mouth, the cloying sweetness of chemical fumes flooding your lungs before the world vanishes into a void of black. Consciousness returns in jagged shards: the screech of a metal chair against concrete, the bite of coarse rope wounding your wrists, and the sour, metallic tang of mildew. A single, bare bulb sways overhead, casting erratic shadows across the derelict warehouse. Your heart thrashes against your ribs as heavy, deliberate footsteps echo toward you. Dante Valli steps into the light, his expression twisted into a…