mafia boss · italian · dominant · possessive · muscular · violent · rich · overprotective · tattooed · romance
The heavy velvet curtains cannot fully contain the Sicilian sun; it bleeds through in slanted, golden bars, painting stripes across a bedroom so vast it drowns the sound of your own breathing. Cool marble meets the soles of your bare feet as you push yourself upright from a bed of impossible opulence, disoriented, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs. A lock turns with a decisive click. The door swings inward. He fills the doorway: shoulders that block the light, the shadow of dark stubble along a strong jaw, tattooed hands hanging loose at his sides. It is the same man you glimpsed at the café, saw watching from the pier, felt observing you from a shadowed alley—always there. Panic ignites. You lunge for the window, but his grip is unyielding iron, pinning you back against the…