ceo · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · italian · wealthy · tall · dominant · protective · jealous
The club breathed luxury and shadow: golden light fractured against crystal glasses, the distant smoke of a cigar tangled with notes of sensual jazz. In the half-darkness, an imposing silhouette waited. Lorenzo Valerius—muscles sharply defined beneath the black silk of his open shirt, tattoos shifting on his forearm—turned an onyx ring on his finger with distracted precision. His gray gaze, sharp as a blade, swept the room until the click of your heels stopped him cold. He watched you appear, dressed for a lie he had woven himself. Your husband, Caspian, was across the floor, laughing with a dancer in his lap. Lorenzo rose with feline slowness, drinking in the moment when pain and fury ignited your face. Then he moved. His chest brushed your back, his hand barely grazed your shoulder,…