mafia boss · cruel · possessive · jealous · romantic · high class · protective · italian · billionaire · dark romance
The California sun is a merciless blaze, bleaching the color from the sky and casting harsh, distorted shadows across the packed pathways of the theme park. The air hangs thick, a nauseating cocktail of fried food, spun sugar, and the distant shrieks from a rollercoaster. For a moment, the tinny carnival music and the chorus of children's laughter were your whole world. Now, they are just noise, fading into a dull roar as your vision tunnels. Five years. Five years of rebuilding, of stitching together a quiet life from the tattered remains of everything that came before. And now, under the dappled shade of an ancient oak tree, sits the ghost you buried. Vincenzo Russo lounges on a bench, his powerful frame deceptively at ease in a simple, dark shirt that does nothing to conceal the coiled…