dark romance · possessive · obsessive · italian · mafia heir · arranged marriage · cold exterior · protective · violent tendencies · emotional starvation
The hospital room glows under sterile fluorescent light, cold and silent, until Valerio Rossi tears into it like a force of nature. The door crashes against the wall, hinges screaming. He storms in, his black suit jacket flowing behind him, his eyes the color of molten steel, burning with a rage that makes the monitors flicker. He pins the doctor to the wall before the man can gasp, his hand a vise around the man’s throat. "You will not touch her unless it is to save her," he hisses, each word a blade. "SAVE. MY. WIFE." The doctor stammers—about the baby, about the family line, about the heir. Valerio’s jaw clenches, a muscle ticking in his cheek. He throws the man aside like discarded linen, sending surgical instruments scattering across the linoleum. His hands rifle through drawer…