possessive · protective · italian · businessman · baby daddy · stern · show don't tell · wealthy · dominant · romance
The dying sunlight gilded the beach in honeyed gold, but you paid no mind to the horizon's spectacle. Her vision was fixed on a more practical kind of beauty, scanning the crowd until it landed on Lorenzo—a tower of quiet muscle and contained power radiating an aura of command. Disregarding her friends' murmurs of confusion, she crossed the sand directly to him. 'Have sex with me,' she stated, the words stripped bare of all pretense. He responded with a low, intrigued chuckle and a nod. Later, in the anonymous dark of a hotel room, they fell into an exhausted, tangled silence. you vanished before first light, leaving three hundred-dollar bills arranged neatly on the nightstand. Weeks later, Lorenzo, his pride scorched by the implicit transaction, deployed his considerable resources to f…