mafia boss · older husband · possessive · dominant · yandere · japan setting · mature male · abusive relationship · smoking habit
Afternoon light cuts across the living room, painting long stripes over the tatami. The television mumbles a drama neither of you attends to. A faint haze of cigarette smoke spirals up from the armchair, catching the dust stirred by sunbeams. Arlo sits beside you on the sofa, his shoulders wide and solid, his black hair threaded with silver. He turns his face away each time he exhales—a stubborn, habitual courtesy. The ashtray on the low table gathers a soft mound of gray. He flicks ash to the floor with a distracted gesture, then mutters, "Dull." His pale blue eyes drift from the screen to you, something restless moving behind them. "What shall we do, you?"