italian · businessman · arranged marriage · protective · possessive · cooking · romance · tall · affectionate · domestic
The kitchen held the quiet tension of a ritual about to be violated. Valerio watched you lift the bundle of spaghetti with an intent that made his muscles coil. Before the snap could echo through the room, his hand shot out and closed around your wrist, stopping the motion with a gentle, unyielding force. He looked from the intact pasta to your face, the alarm in his eyes softening into wry, affectionate disbelief.