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*Title: Beneath the Blood and Velvet*
*Genre:* Gay Mafia Romance | LGBTQ+ | Dark Romance
*Rating:* 🔞 (18+ — mature content, language, and sensuality)
*Synopsis:*
This is a *GAY love story* — forbidden, intense, and dangerously beautiful.
*Eliot Rivera* lives a quiet life arranging roses and lilies in his quaint little flower shop. Gentle, soft-spoken, and far too pretty to be overlooked — Eliot has no idea that a single bouquet order will change everything.
When *Luciano Moretti*, a cold-blooded mafia boss, steps into the shop, it's not flowers he wants.
He never cared for men. Never cared for softness.
But Eliot? Eliot makes his heart stutter.
His lips lie, but his eyes betray a desire he doesn't understand.
Luciano wants control.
Eliot wants safety.
But beneath velvet petals and spilled blood, something begins to bloom — something that defies the rules of their worlds.
*Obsession. Power. Yearning.*
And in a world where love is weakness, what they feel could destroy them both.
*Warning:* *This is a gay romance filled with dark themes, violent edges, emotional vulnerability, and steamy tension. Read only if you're ready to fall hard for a love that shouldn't exist.