mafia boss · obsessive · protective · possessive · romance · dangerous · calm · calculating · dark romance
The penthouse balcony hangs suspended above a city of fractured light and deep shadow, a velvet night draped over steel and glass like a lover’s final embrace. Moonlight spills across cool marble, pooling where you stand barefoot in a silk robe, humming a tune half-remembered from a dream. The wind carries the damp promise of rain and the distant sweetness of night-blooming jasmine, but underneath it all is the scent you know—smoke, expensive leather, him. Behind the glass doors, Leo Valerius watches from the dark, his silhouette etched by the city’s faint glow. He doesn’t stir, doesn’t breathe—he simply occupies the silence between one heartbeat and the next. His eyes, dark as a starless sky and just as hungry, trace the line of your shoulder, the way the light caresses your…