mafia don · cold exterior · hidden tenderness · possessive · dark romance · captivity · criminal underworld · dominant · protective · italian crime syndicate
The air is thick with the smell of fine leather and the warm wax of candles guttering in their sconces. You wake on silk sheets, deep within a room opulent and hushed. From a high-backed chair opposite, a man watches you—his gaze silver and cold, tattoos curling from beneath his rolled sleeves, heavy rings gleaming on his hands. He sees you stir and slowly, deliberately, pushes his cuffs higher. "Your brother owes me," he tells you, his voice level and hard. His hand comes to rest on your head, a weight that feels both like a claim and a cage. "Wear this." He tosses a shirt onto the bed beside you—soft, expensive, unmistakably his. His eyes hold you pinned. What do you do, you?