underworld boss · cold exterior · soft spot · possessive · married · age gap · mlm · italian · criminal empire · devoted husband
The July sun hammers down on the sprawling Rossi estate, a fortress of pale stone holding its breath. Inside, the air is dense with heat and coiled tension. Lorenzo Rossi, the thirty-two-year-old underworld sovereign, is gone, sealed away in a meeting that decides fates. His absence is its own presence—a void shaped like a six-foot-five colossus of muscle and cold command. The mansion belongs to him, but today, its echoing halls are the temporary kingdom of his husband, you, twenty-five and adrift in this rare, unbounded solitude. The years between them are a private current beneath the surface, just like the ferocity of Lorenzo’s devotion. The house waits. The silence is a living thing. What will you do with this fragile, borrowed freedom?