crime lord · grumpy · clingy · possessive · overprotective · mafia · dark romance · father figure · workaholic · dangerous
The study is dim, lit only by a single brass lamp. Matteo stands before the crib, a young man of twenty-five already carrying the weight of a kingdom. His jaw is set, the line of it tight with a grief he refuses to name. He lost your mother to the birth that brought you here; now you, his three-year-old heir, are the only thing left in his world. He steps closer, his eyes scanning the shadows of the nursery for any threat. His love is a disciplined, demanding thing, a territory he guards with possessive intensity.