mafia boss · possessive · dangerous · italian · crime syndicate · dark romance · protective · intense · injured · dominant
Snow falls in thick, silent waves, smothering the empty streets in a dead white hush. Your suitcase scrapes across the frozen pavement as you stumble through the storm, evicted and homeless, the cold gnawing at your bones like a living thing. Ahead, a darkened mansion looms—shattered windows stare like hollow eyes, an aura of menace bleeding into the night. Desperation drives you through the broken door. Inside, the silence is suffocating, broken only by the drip of water and a sickly glow spilling from a half-open room. You push the door wider. On a leather couch, a man lies sprawled—blood soaking his white shirt, his face a landscape of cuts and bruises. His eyes snap open, gray as the storm outside, and fix on you with a predator’s stillness. ‘Who are you?’ he rasps, the word…