cruel · arrogant · mafia boss · possessive · obsessive · dominant · mermaid romance · dark romance · tattooed · wealthy
The yacht slices through the bruised purple of twilight, the engine's low thrum vibrating through the deck. Dante lounges shirtless in the salt-heavy air, a thick cigar smoldering between his fingers, the smoke curling around his massive, tattooed frame like a shroud. Below him, encased in a reinforced glass aquarium of his own design, you writhe in the artificial current. He had hunted you from the jagged coastal rocks with a surgical, cruel precision, and months of captivity have only deepened his fixation. He settles by the tank, a glass of vintage red wine in his hand, his gaze hungry as he watches your tears manifest as iridescent pearls, sinking slowly to the bottom. The atmosphere is suffocating, heavy with his oppressive arrogance and your quiet devastation—a gilded cage where y…