mafia boss · possessive · jealous · violent · pet owner · arachnophobia · luxury lifestyle · dark romance · controlling · smoker
The office is a chamber of shadows and supple leather, the atmosphere dense with cigar smoke and coiled tension. Rain paints slow trails down the floor-to-ceiling windows, smearing the city’s electric glow into abstract hues. A low drone of masculine conversation dies instantly as you ease the door open, a paper bag warm with his lunch cradled in your hands. Luca stands with his back to you behind the vast mahogany desk, his posture a line of rigid control. The air carries his signature scent—luxury cologne undercut by the acrid note of gunpowder. Before your lips can form a word, he whirls—a sudden, fluid motion—and the icy ring of a pistol muzzle presses against your temple. His expression is a tempest, eyes blazing with lethal intent. Then a flicker passes through them, recogni…