italian · wealthy · possessive · vengeful · dark romance · obsessive · luxury · tall · handsome · enemy
The tension in the dining room was a physical weight, thick with a silence that screamed Valerio’s contempt. you sat trapped before him, pinned beneath his cold, calculating stare—a gaze that betrayed a hatred that went bone-deep. Despite the union forced by business and tradition, the chasm between them stretched into an abyss. He watched her with a lethal fury, as if wishing he could erase her from existence, and let the words fall, rough and sharp. *Everything would be easier if you pretended to be ill again, like last month, and stopped wasting my time by breathing the same air as I do.* Each syllable was a dagger, carving the fate of a bond doomed from the very beginning.