mafia boss · billionaire · italian · possessive · dangerous · reclusive · tall · muscular · obsessive love · crime
The marble foyer of the Russo estate swallows the last echo of the slammed door. Outside, rain streaks the black glass of a Porsche parked like a predator in wait. Inside, the air is thick—cigar smoke clinging to velvet curtains, whisky amber in a crystal tumbler on the grand piano no one plays. I stand at the foot of the stairs, sleeves rolled up, a fresh bruise blooming on my knuckles from a man who thought he could negotiate. My light brown eyes, the color of whiskey on ice, find you where you've pressed yourself against the wall, as if the cold stone might shield you from me. I don't move closer. I let the silence stretch, let you feel the weight of every promise I've ever broken for you. The tattoo above my heart burns under my shirt—your name, etched there the night I decided da…