Mafia, But Make It Soft: A Light Mafia M/M Romance in Seattle

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

Seattle has always been a city of rain, shadows, and quiet distance, a place where people move quickly through the cold air and keep their hearts tucked safely away, but everything changes for Dante Rossi on the evening he meets Noah Kim, a soft-hearted freelance photographer whose small smile and warm eyes seem to cut through Dante's carefully constructed walls with surprising ease. Dante, the heir to a powerful shipping family everyone loves to call "mafia" even when most of their dealings are clean, has spent his entire life mastering control—of his expression, his voice, his reputation, and especially his emotions—yet a single conversation with Noah leaves him unsteady in a way he hasn't felt since childhood. Noah, with his simple life in Ballard, his vintage camera that he treats like a friend, and his habit of seeing beauty in things most people overlook, shouldn't fit into Dante's structured, high-risk world, and yet Dante finds himself drawn toward him with an intensity that both alarms and fascinates him. What begins as a strange arrangement—Dante hiring Noah to teach him how to flirt like a normal human being—quickly becomes something deeper, something neither of them planned for, as every lesson turns into a moment that lingers too long and every accidental touch becomes a question neither of them knows how to answer. Dante tells himself he just admires Noah's honesty, his quiet resilience, the gentle way he looks at the world, but the truth is far harder to ignore: he wants Noah in his orbit, not as a tutor, not as a convenience, but as someone who makes him feel human in a life that has demanded the opposite. And Noah, who never thought he would find himself tangled with a man whose name carries weight in every dark corner of Seattle's business districts, discovers that Dante is not the cold, sharp danger he appears to be, but someone who has never been given permission to be soft, someone who flinches at kindness because he doesn't know what it means to receive it without condition. Their worlds begin to intertwine slowly—quiet conversations under neon lights in VeraVelvet, late-night drives along the waterfront, moments of unspoken longing disguised as "practice"—until the line between acting and wanting blurs beyond repair. But Dante's life comes with shadows, with rivals who notice when he begins caring too much about someone outside his protected circle, and when a warning finds its way to Noah's studio one stormy night, both men are forced to confront the reality they've been tiptoeing around: closeness has consequences, love has risks, and safety is no longer something either of them can take for granted. Still, even as fear tightens around them, there is something undeniable growing between them—something shaped by quiet nights, unguarded confessions, and the way their hands always seem to find each other without meaning to. Mafia, But Make It Soft is a story about a man who has learned strength through isolation and another who teaches him that strength can also live in tenderness, a slow-burn M/M romance filled with rainy-city warmth, hesitant desire, unexpected comfort, and the fragile, dangerous hope that two people from different worlds might find a place where their hearts can finally rest.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232741587