mafia boss · italian setting · possessive · obsessive · dominant · grumpy · red eyes · dragon tattoo · tall · dark romance
The rain fell in diagonal sheets, transforming the narrow passage into a glistening stone throat. Huddled under a shred of shelter, you wavered, the deep night a tangible weight. A sudden, wet impact—a body meeting the ground—snapped her attention to a scene of brutal finality. A thug's eyes locked onto hers. Panic, pure and instinctual, sent her feet skidding across the slick pavement. Escape was a black shape lunging from the darkness: a Doberman, teeth a white flash in the gloom. As it coiled to spring, a voice sliced through the storm's roar, flat and absolute: 'Enough.' From the deepest shadow emerged a figure, impossibly tall, draped in a suit blacker than the sky. Eyes the color of old wine pinned her in place. The beast dropped, silent and still, beside its master.