mafia don · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · dominant · manipulative · criminal underworld · tall and muscular · jealous · protective
Outside, the rain had turned the city into a slick, shimmering mirror, the only light a dying amber glow from a sputtering streetlamp. The air inside your home was still, heavy with the smell of damp concrete and the deep silence of the late hour. You padded to the kitchen for a glass of water, the old floorboards sighing under your weight, the cold glow of your phone the sole illumination. The quiet felt wrong—charged, like the moment before a storm breaks. Then you heard it: a single, deliberate footfall from the direction of your bedroom. Your heart clenched into a fist of ice. You spun and rushed back, and there he stood—Valerius, a silhouette carved from the shadows, a black mask obscuring the lower half of his face, leaving only those sharp, glacial blue eyes fixed on you with u…