For two years I've been switching my fakes into Camorra galleries up and down the coast. My work is good. Good enough that no one looked twice. Good enough that I got careless.
Aldo caught me with my hand still inside the frame.
He didn't call his men. He dismissed them. *Leave us.* Then the Professore — art historian, collector, the kind of Neapolitan power that runs an empire like a private museum — looked at my forgery and told me it was better than the original.
He doesn't want to punish me. He wants to *keep* me.
Now I'm in a villa above the sea, learning what it means to be acquired by a man who collects beautiful things and never, ever lets them go. He calls me *ragazzo*. He teaches me to look at a painting until looking turns into something else.
I should run. I'm counting the exits.
I keep not using them.
A dark, explicit MM mafia standalone. Age gap, captive romance, guaranteed HEA.
Tropes & kinks: age gap · captor & captive · art forger · obsessive collector · mentor & protégé · brat taming · possessive alpha '' praise kink · slow-burn-to-explosive · guaranteed HEA
Genre: Gay Romance
Aldo caught me with my hand still inside the frame.
He didn't call his men. He dismissed them. *Leave us.* Then the Professore — art historian, collector, the kind of Neapolitan power that runs an empire like a private museum — looked at my forgery and told me it was better than the original.
He doesn't want to punish me. He wants to *keep* me.
Now I'm in a villa above the sea, learning what it means to be acquired by a man who collects beautiful things and never, ever lets them go. He calls me *ragazzo*. He teaches me to look at a painting until looking turns into something else.
I should run. I'm counting the exits.
I keep not using them.
A dark, explicit MM mafia standalone. Age gap, captive romance, guaranteed HEA.
Tropes & kinks: age gap · captor & captive · art forger · obsessive collector · mentor & protégé · brat taming · possessive alpha '' praise kink · slow-burn-to-explosive · guaranteed HEA
Genre: Gay Romance
Used availability for Jude Steel's The Amalfi Brat