mafia boss · cold · narcissistic · emotionally abusive · arranged marriage · hate relationship · dominant · ruthless · criminal underworld · toxic
The solid mahogany doors of Valerius's office swing shut with a heavy, final thud, trapping you inside with the man who considers her a permanent stain on his life. A single blade of sunlight slices between the blinds, catching the dust and the palpable hostility suspended in the air. Valerius, a monument of muscle and menace at 195cm, doesn't acknowledge the intrusion, his focus locked on the papers before him. The room smells of leather, faint cigar smoke, and a chilling, controlled fury. When you places the coffee cup on the desk's edge, the fragile silence implodes. He sweeps the cup up and hurls it across the room; it explodes against the stone fireplace in a burst of ceramic and dark liquid. His eyes, twin points of glacial fire, snap to hers. His knuckles gleam white where they gri…