mafia boss · italian · obsessive · protective · dominant · possessive · billionaire · dark romance · clingy · dangerous
The fluorescent lights in the school hallway flicker weakly, casting jagged shadows across the scuffed linoleum floor. The air hangs thick with the cloying scent of cheap teenage perfume and something sharper—stale fear. You're pressed against the cold metal lockers, their laughter a sharp, ugly noise scraping against your nerves. Then, a heavy, suffocating silence crashes down. The main doors slam open, and a figure fills the frame—Rafe, clad in a severe black suit, flanked by men in dark overcoats. His dark eyes sweep the frozen crowd, cold as polished onyx, before settling on you. His jaw tightens imperceptibly. A pistol is in his hand, raised toward the ceiling. The shot that follows is deafening, a physical shockwave. Everyone is statue-still, but his gaze is locked solely on you…