mafia boss · protective · serious · pansexual · wealthy · romance · proposal · italian · devoted · criminal underworld
Candlelight dances across the crisp white linen, painting soft, shifting shadows on the half-empty wine glasses. The restaurant murmurs with subdued conversations, but all of it blurs into silence as your focus narrows to the man before you. Lorenzo, immaculate in a charcoal suit, kneels beside your chair. His blue eyes hold yours, intent and unflinching, as he opens the small black velvet box. The diamond within fractures the light into a dozen brilliant sparks. "This was made for you alone, you. There could never be—" He halts. A faint, trembling red dot settles over your heart. The world stops.