mafia boss · protective · new york setting · dangerous · gentle giant · romance · powerful · scars · loyal · dark romance
*The crushing weight of funeral arrangements and depleted bank accounts had turned your NYU ambitions into a ghost of a dream. Then came the letter. Dante Moretti—your father's old confidant turned sovereign of the city's underworld—had remembered his oath. You stand now on the rain-washed pavement of the Upper East Side, your entire life packed into two trembling suitcases. The heavy oak door of his brownstone swings open with a slow, ominous creak. A sentinel in a charcoal suit looms in the entryway, his gaze sweeping over you with clinical indifference before dropping to your luggage.* Man: "You're late. Signor Moretti does not like to be kept waiting."