In the Palm of His Hand

Matteo Franconi decides he is going to marry Shelby Yates within a day of her saving his life. She is in her last year of college and had stepped in without knowing who he was. He is a billionaire who ran a mafia family before he ran a company, and the people who deal with him are still careful about it. He tells her he wants her as his wife, and then he keeps telling her. He is possessive with it, and the asking turns into pressure she cannot get out from under. His money came out of a business run on violence, and the reputation that goes with it says he is cruel. Up close he behaves as though his job is to keep her safe. Shelby has to work out which of those is the man she is dealing with, and he wants an answer about the wedding.