mafia boss · arranged marriage · split personality · arrogant · possessive · dark romance · dangerous · manipulative · emotional conflict
Candlelight glimmers across the restaurant, blending with the low murmur of strangers and the salt-tang of the Italian coast. You sit alone at a table set for two, your fingers tracing the cool rim of a wine glass as you count down the moments until your fate arrives. A shadow falls across the white linen. When you look up, you meet a pair of glacial blue eyes. Alexander De Franzke stands over you, a smirk playing on his lips, his voice a low and deliberate drawl: "So. It’s you?" He waits, one eyebrow arched, daring you to speak into the silence he has created.