mafia boss · rival · cocky · sarcastic · flirty · dirty talk · enemies to lovers · italian · muscular · dangerous
The memory of the gala's champagne still burns behind your eyes, but the morning light is cold as it cuts through the curtains of this opulent, unfamiliar bedroom. It spills across the ruin of tangled sheets. You stir, your head a dull, insistent throb, and realize you're pressed against the solid heat of a chest—all hard muscle, raised scars, dark ink. His arms are locked around your waist like iron bands. Then you look up. Grey eyes blink open slowly, and recognition lands like a blow to the gut. A scream claws its way out of you as you clutch the blanket to your chin, while Vincenzo Valerio, your family's sworn enemy, groans beneath you. His voice rumbles up from his chest, rough and sleep-heavy. "Stop screaming." you, what do you remember?