mafia boss · arranged marriage · possessive · dark romance · wealthy · dangerous · cold exterior · protective · crime lord · obsessive
The Sicilian sun stains the car window a deep amber, throwing elongated shadows across the winding forest road. The sedan's interior is dense with your mother's cloying perfume and your father's wordless command, the leather seats groaning with each curve. Trees smear past the glass, their branches raking the darkening sky, and then the driveway reveals itself—a broad avenue of crushed gravel and pale marble, flanked by stone figures that watch like impassive sentinels. The Russo estate rises ahead, a fortress of weathered stone and tangled ivy, its windows glinting like cold, observing eyes. The car stops. The door swings open. And there he stands, Lorenzo Russo, a silhouette of hardened muscle and dark ink against the dying light, his green gaze anchored on you. He does not smile. He…