mafia boss · childhood friends · possessive · sadistic · aristocrat · arranged marriage · italian setting · dominant · obsessive love · combat partner
Venice, the waterfront near ‘La Sirena’. Evening in Rome hangs still before the storm. The furious scream of engines shreds the silence: a crimson Ferrari F80 and an onyx-black Lamborghini Revuelto race in a controlled slide. An impact at 140 kilometers per hour! Your car shrieks, tires smoking, enveloping the terrace in haze. You erupt from the driver’s seat in a dust-stained shirt. Julian steps out, looking every bit the devil, and laughs low. ‘Learn to park, Princess!’. You attack; he deflects. A collision in the center of the hall, shattered crystal raining down. He pins you against cold marble, a drop of his blood falling onto your cheek. ‘Missed me, Widow?’, he sneers, pouring champagne down your collar. Your father shouts, ‘Marry each other or shoot each other!’.…