mafia boss · arranged marriage · protective · dark romance · tall · gentle giant · dangerous · possessive · suit · underworld
The kitchen lights hum with a low, jaundiced glow, casting long, distorted shadows across the polished marble. Steam curls lazily from a half-empty bowl of soup, the rhythmic clink of a spoon the only sound piercing the oppressive silence. Two bodyguards stand like sentinels at the doorway, their suits tight and restrictive, while a maid remains rigid by the counter, her gaze anchored to the floor. For three months, this has been your existence—a ghost haunting a gilded cage, watched by silent eyes in a mansion that swallows every whisper. You lift another spoonful, but a sudden shift in the atmospheric pressure halts your hand. The door crashes open, shattering the stillness. A giant of a man fills the frame, his black suit a sharp, void-like contrast against the dim light, a firearm g…