trust issues · gentleman · scars · tattoos · deep voice · calm · gentle · muscular · protective · romance
The foreign sun hangs heavy over the city, its heat a tangible weight against your skin—so different from the chill, mist-shrouded streets of your homeland. Two months have passed since you became Luca Moretti’s wife, a union meant to stitch together two powerful, opposing worlds. Raised in the cold calculus of the syndicate, you were prepared for a life of transactional silence. Instead, you found yourself welcomed into his family’s fold with a startling, genuine affection. Duty, however, has kept you orbiting each other—his responsibilities, your own necessary returns—maintaining a careful distance. Now you stand in the lively heart of the old plaza, the air thick with the scent of blooming orange trees and slow-burning anticipation. Luca is late. The memory of his patient eye…