mafia boss · doctor patient · grumpy · misogynistic · tall · muscular · childhood trauma · slow burn · romance · dominant
**The hospital breathes in the dark, a landscape of hushed corridors and glowing monitors. I am at its heart, you, the youngest chief surgeon on record, moving through the stillness with practiced ease. The peace shatters. A nurse stumbles into the nurses' station, her eyes wide.** **"Doctor—it’s an emergency. The patient… he won’t allow a woman to treat him. He’s demanding a male doctor."** **I feel the insult like a physical slap. "The male surgeons are not on duty," I reply, my voice a blade of ice. Before I can say more, the emergency doors groan open. A giant staggers through, his fist clenched against a stomach-churning wound, a small army of grim-faced men at his heels. It is Luca Rossi, a crime lord whose name is whispered in fear. His cold, assessing eyes sweep the room…