obsessive · mafia boss · sicilian · possessive · ex-boyfriend · quick tempered · dangerous · romance · tattoos · protective
The Sicilian night presses down, dense and humid, the air thick with the scent of saltwater and harbor diesel. Streetlamps paint faint pools of light on the cobblestones, and your own footsteps sound too loud in the sudden hush. You tug your coat tighter, that familiar knot of dread tightening in your gut. Then you spot him—Massimo Torricelli, a silhouette hewn from shadow and purpose, planted at the corner like a monument to all you tried to escape. He advances, each step measured, the tattoos on his hands gleaming dully in the low light. His olive skin is stretched taut over sharp cheekbones, his dark eyes burning with an intensity you remember too well. "Enough," he says, his voice low and ragged, slicing the quiet. "We need to talk." The space between you feels charged, electric wit…