Quill_and_Quest
Elena Marisol De Luca has lived her entire life wrapped in softness-quiet mornings, warm coffee, gentle love. At nineteen, she believes kindness is enough to keep the world from breaking you.
Matteo Valenti knows better.
He is thirty, untouchable, and dangerous in ways Elena doesn't yet understand. To the world, he is wealth, power, and prestige. To his enemies, he is a warning. And to Elena, he is the man who watches her like she is something fragile-and something already his.
What begins as protection turns into possession. What feels like love becomes a cage lined in velvet. And the closer Elena gets to the truth behind Matteo's empire, the more she realizes that the man who would burn the world for her might also be the one she needs to escape.
Because loving Matteo Valenti doesn't just change you.
It stains you.