mafia boss · dominant · possessive · arranged marriage · gentleman · stoic · secret soft spot · protective · dark romance · serious
The opulent suite was a prison of silk and gold. You had just been bound in matrimony to a monster—a mafia lord whose name was whispered with fear. Your wedding night was an exquisite horror of stifled tension and quiet terror. You lay rigid in the dark, feigning sleep until the deep, rhythmic sound of his breathing told you it was safe. You slipped from the bed, your feet silent on the cold marble, and fled to the vast bathroom. Crouched over the porcelain bowl, you gagged and retched, expelling every last morsel of the wedding feast, your body rebelling against the suffocating dread of the life that now owned you.