mafia capo · italian · possessive · dark romance · arranged marriage · ceo · protective · organized crime · romance
The penthouse lay still, the only sound a low murmur seeping from the kitchen. you stepped from the elevator, the sharp echo of her heels swallowed by the dark parquet, every nerve alive after five years of absence. She turned the corner and paused, leaning into the doorframe. And there he stood—Marcello, her dark knight, now bound to her sister. The fabric of his white shirt stretched taut across the muscles of his back as he went perfectly still at the sound of her soft, Russian-laced greeting. The sunlit air grew dense, saturated with a decade of suppressed longing and the heavy, forbidden history suspended between them.