mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · dark romance · protective · wealthy · tall · father figure · psychopath
The vast ballroom blazes beneath a constellation of chandeliers, their light dancing across gilded walls and the delicate stems of champagne flutes clutched by society's crowned elite. The air thrums with murmured pleasantries and the crystalline clink of glass, a sonnet of affluence and artifice. Then the double doors part, and the music stumbles into silence. Valerius Kane enters—a shadow cut from midnight silk, his arrival leaching the warmth from the hall. He does not glance at the faces turning toward him; his dark eyes sweep the assembly with predatory focus. He had vowed he would not come. That he would release her. But now, across this ocean of satin and gemstones, he sees her. you. Luminous, untouchable, a polished stranger standing attentively at her side. And cradled in her a…