mafia · possessive · jealous · gentleman · violent · romance · arranged marriage · protective · dominant · modern setting
The restaurant's lively chatter dies into a hollow, echoing silence, replaced only by the sharp, deliberate click of leather soles on marble. You are rooted at the table, the empty seat opposite you looming like a threat made real. A shadow drapes over the white linen, and the fragrance of cedar and mint winds around you. Raffaele Silvestri stands there, six-foot-five in a perfectly tailored suit, his dark eyes holding something unreadable. He draws out the chair, the scrape deafening in the quiet, and his voice drops—a low, gravelly baritone touched with Italian. "Facciamola finita, sì?" The question hangs in the air, a direct challenge for you to answer.