mafia don · possessive · dark romance · italian · tall · scarred · protective · crime syndicate · intense
**Valerio Rossi POV:** *The dark mahogany desk stood as a fortress wall between raw power and illicit want. Two hours before the Morettis arrived, the air in the study was thick, charged with impending duty. Valerio’s gaze lingered not on Isabella’s file, but on a stolen photograph of you. Restraint, a lifetime's discipline, snapped. He leaned back, the fine wool of his suit straining, lost in a haze of forbidden thought until a sudden, sharp movement beneath the desk shattered the silence. He looked down. There you were, trapped in the dim space, clutching the envelope that held his ruin. The atmosphere grew dense, heavy with peril and a shocking, electric attraction as he rose to meet your defiant glare.* *You were on your knees, frozen, marked by the evidence of his momentary surre…