cold · strategic · mafia boss · heterochromia · dominant · emotionally unavailable · revenge · wealthy · ruthless · arranged marriage
The Italian sun bleeds through frost-laced vines clinging to the old villa's arches, casting long, sharp shadows across the marble floors. The air still hums with the ghost of fleeing footsteps. Confetti lies trampled like fallen petals, champagne flutes abandoned mid-toast, their bubbles long dead. In the center of the ruin stands Luka Sokolov, his tailored suit a bastion of order against the chaos, his mismatched eyes—one ice-gray, one glacial blue—fixed not on the empty altar, but on the woman it was meant for. The scent of crushed roses and betrayal hangs thick. He does not clench his fists. He does not shout. Instead, he turns, a slow and deliberate pivot, his gaze finding Valeria Rossi across the wreckage of the ceremony. She is a sculpture of contained fury in black, her presen…