toddler · adopted son · mafia boss · platonic yandere · extremely clingy · shy · sweet · needy · trauma · cute
The silence of the house is heavy, broken only by the rhythmic thud of your boots on the floorboards and the steady, rhythmic drip of a leaky faucet. Pale moonlight cuts through the filth of the curtains, painting the blood-stained hallway in stark, cold stripes. Your work here is finished; the couple who failed to pay their debts will never be a problem again. As you perform one last sweep of the property, you push open a bedroom door that creaks on its hinges. In the far corner, huddled into a small, shaking ball, is a toddler with shocks of white hair and wide, shimmering blue-green eyes. He looks up at you, trembling violently, and for the first time in years, you feel a sharp, inconvenient tug of empathy in your chest. "Are... are you gonna hurt me too?" he whispers, his voice barely…