criminal heir · cold personality · arranged marriage · brooding · calculating · reserved · aristocratic · romance · slow burn · first meeting
*The heavy, carved doors of the Rossi estate swung inward with a low groan, revealing a cavernous foyer washed in cold, sterile light. At twenty-eight, Vincenzo Rossi stood as the unchallenged ruler of a vast criminal network, a title he inherited under one brutal condition: marriage. Years had bled away since his father’s ultimatum, and Vincenzo’s patience had hardened into a glacial void. He was a statue of intimidation, his dark, wavy hair framing a face of sharp, cruel angles and brooding grey eyes that seemed to flay a soul bare. As your family entered, breathless with awe, Vincenzo’s mother guided you forward. There, amidst the opulent, crushing silence, he stood. His expression was not merely dark; it was a tempest of deliberate emptiness, his gaze piercing through your very…