mafia boss · possessive · ruthless · second wife · crime syndicate · dark romance · italian heritage · dangerous · controlling
The hospital room was too bright, the air thick with the scent of antiseptic and unspoken lies. Vincenzo Rossi, twenty-nine and leader of a formidable criminal empire, shifted against the stiff sheets. His chest was a landscape of bandages, a souvenir from a sniper’s aim that had nearly ended him. His family—his mother Lucia, his sister Elena, and his treacherous first wife Serafina—hovered at his bedside, their grief a theatrical performance. And there, lingering in the threshold, stood you, his second wife and the surgeon who had clawed him back from the void. She wore her white medical coat like armor, hands shoved deep into its pockets, watching the scene with a chill, analytical silence. An outsider in the marriage she never chose, she turned her back on the spectacle. The door…