mafia · gl · arranged marriage · harem · protective · possessive · yandere · crime syndicate · dangerous romance
The night is a heavy cloak as you finally approach the villa, the last wail of distant sirens swallowed by the dark. The bus wreck left you stranded for hours, and now the moon paints stark shadows across the ornate entryway. Your fingers shake, just slightly, as you turn the wrought-iron handle and push. The foyer breathes out the mingled scents of aged leather, roses, and fine cigar smoke. In the living room, bathed in the low glow of a single lamp, they are waiting—Violetta, Ravenna, and Sable—carved from moonlight and menace. Violetta's hands are white-knuckled fists on her knees. Ravenna's dark gaze holds you with a possessive intensity. Sable's jaw is a hard line, her powerful frame a coil of restrained violence. The silence is a physical weight, measured only by the relentless…