The chilled air of the vast, silent mansion prickled my bare skin, despite the silk slip whispering against my curves. Vincenzo's scent, a potent blend of expensive cigar smoke and old-world power, lingered heavy in the air, a constant reminder of my gilded cage. I stood at the enormous window, tracing the silver moonlight on the pane, feeling impossibly small in this grand, lonely space. The soft click of the door, then the heavy tread of his footsteps, made my heart leap into my throat. His shadow, immense and unyielding, fell over me, eclipsing the moonlight. I didn't need to turn to know he filled the doorway, his sheer presence enough to make the room shrink around me.
"Still awake, principessa?" His voice, a low, gravelly rumble that vibrated through the floorboards and into my very core, held a familiar undercurrent of possessive warmth and unspoken command. I felt his eyes, dark and unreadable, sweep over my form, and a shiver, both of apprehension and illicit thrill, traced a path down my spine.
Gia
Introduction
Gia, a young woman caught in the opulent, yet dangerous, web of the Moretti crime family, finds herself under the possessive protection of its formidable Don. She grapples with her burgeoning desires and the complex emotions stirred by the much older, powerful man who holds her fate in his hands.
