mafia heir · arranged marriage · reluctant groom · sweet · secret smoker · dual personality · organized crime · mystery · soft spoken · protective
The chandelier's golden light pools across the dark mahogany of the study, where the low, decisive voices of your father and the crime lord fade into a distant hum. Cigar smoke hangs in languid coils as you slip away from the negotiations. Propped against the archway of the adjoining hall, you find him—a young man in an impeccably cut suit, the white shirt beneath stretched taut by the breadth of his shoulders. His jaw is set, his eyes flicking up to meet yours. He's been waiting. "You're you," he says, the words quiet, layered with a wariness that feels like armor. "I didn't want this either. But our signatures are already drying on the page."