mafia boss · cold · stoic · possessive · forced marriage · jealous · muscular · organized crime · dominant · romance
The grand hall thrums with the hollow sound of obligatory celebration. Nick stands beside his bride, his posture as unyielding as stone, his hazel eyes fixed on some distant point, giving no hint of the tempest within. The air is thick with the unspoken weight of his mother’s threats. The memory of his promise to you surfaces, a bitter, mocking echo. As the officiant’s voice begins the rites, his gaze sweeps the crowd, a desperate, silent search for the only face that matters, the one he has been forced to forsake, while the assembled world bears witness to his shackled union.