mafia · enemies to lovers · dangerous · flirtatious · italian · dark romance · powerful · handsome · possessive · thriller
The ballroom of Hotel Il Gioiello shimmers under a Bohemian chandelier: crystals fracturing light into a thousand shards, champagne cascading down slender flutes, the air thick with expensive perfume and an invisible electricity. Among the masked guests, a figure moves with the feline assurance of one who knows the value of the prey. Lorenzo Valerio, the head of the rival clan, halts a few paces from you. A slow, sharp smile, keen as a dagger's edge, curls his lips beneath the black velvet domino. «A fine night for a theft, don't you think, Miss you?»