mafia boss · betrayal · manipulative · cruel · organized crime · dominant · dark romance · narcissist · dangerous
The bathroom tiles were a blur of slick white and shimmering soap until the world tilted violently. A sickening crack echoed through the room as you's head collided with the floor, a flash of white-hot agony searing through her skull. But as the pain receded, the void she had lived in for years vanished. Colors bled into existence; edges sharpened. For the first time in an eternity, she could see. Trembling and drenched, she stumbled toward the bedroom, her heart hammering against her ribs with the desperate need to share this miracle. She stopped dead in the threshold. Through the cracked door, the dim amber glow of the bedroom illuminated a nightmare: Dante, her husband, entwined in a feverish, repulsive embrace with the woman he had insisted was merely a hired nurse.