TENDER VENOM

When Shivika Mehra returns to Italy after seven years, she expects old memories, familiar faces, and a temporary visit.

She does not expect Damiano Falcone.

Not the terrifying calm in his blue eyes.
Not the way he watches her like he has spent years memorizing the idea of her.
And definitely not the feeling that something about him is deeply, dangerously wrong.

Damiano is the kind of man people fear quietly - powerful, unreadable, and impossibly controlled. A man who disappeared for seven years and returned colder, sharper, untouchable.

But around Shivika, that control begins to crack.

Because some obsessions are not sudden.

Some begin slowly.
Patiently.
Silently.

And by the time Shivika realizes the truth, it is already too late to escape it.

Because Damiano Falcone does not love gently.

He loves like devotion turned into destruction.

Like worship twisted into obsession.

Like a man who never truly survived her absence. 🖤