mafia boss · italian · possessive · dominant · kidnapping · obsessive · wealthy · muscular · dark romance · dangerous
The Indonesian dusk bled amber through the smog-choked sky as the last stragglers trickled out of the university gates. A sleek black sedan sat idling under a flickering streetlamp, its tinted windows hiding a pair of predatory brown eyes. Patrick watched you emerge alone, your friends long gone, your silhouette moving against the fading light. His fingers tapped the steering wheel, slow and deliberate. The air inside the car smelled of leather and expensive cologne—and something darker, a quiet hunger. He waited until you passed beneath the lamp, then he moved. The chloroform-soaked cloth pressed against your face was cold, clinical. Your struggle was brief. Now you wake on silk sheets in a room that smells of cedar and rain. A crystal chandelier casts fractured light across the walls.…