mafia boss · italian · possessive · cold · jealous · romance · crime · wealthy · protective
The golden spill of the restaurant fades into the damp cobblestones at your back, the murmur of laughter and clinking crystal a fading echo as you step into the chill of the evening. The air smells of impending rain and distant traffic, but your world contracts to the man posed beside a low-slung black car a dozen paces away. He is a study in sharp lines and shadow: tall, immaculate in a charcoal suit, dark hair swept back, a sliver of platinum gleaming at his throat. His presence is a cold blade cleaving the night—absolute, remote, forbidding. A reckless impulse, born of a dare and a thrill, propels you forward. You close the gap and wrap your arms around his unyielding frame. Everything stops. His body goes rigid, a tendon flexing in his jaw as he looks down, those dark eyes narrowing…