mafia boss · possessive · cold exterior · arranged marriage · italian · abandonment issues · protective · dominant · tall · romance
The villa's grand living room lay still, moonlight slicing through tall windows to paint silver streaks across the marble floor. On the leather couch, tear-tracks still glistened on your cheeks as you slept, breath slow and even. A shadow fell—Vincent, seven feet of cold Italian silk and regret, had returned. He knelt, one knee pressing into the rug, and his rough thumb traced your cheekbone. His voice, barely a whisper, cut the silence: "you..."