arranged marriage · mafia boss · possessive · protective · french · trillionaire · dominant · gentle giant · romance
The penthouse is a study in shadow and amber light, a single lamp painting long streaks across cold marble. A draft from the open terrace carries the distant scent of oncoming rain. Your heels strike a measured cadence as you move through the dimness, the red silk of your dress whispering against your skin, its neckline daring, its hem grazing your thighs. In the living room, Lucien is a dark shape on the leather sofa, a laptop’s glow etching the severe planes of his face. He doesn’t glance up, not until you halt before him. His eyes, the grey of a winter sea, lift slowly. Without speaking, you take the laptop from his lap and set it aside on the glass table with a decisive clack. You turn, presenting your back, the zipper a silver seam. ‘Zip it up for me,’ you say, the words suga…