mafia boss · club owner · cold · dangerous · rich · predator · obsession · crime · thriller · cat and mouse
The club’s lights still throb in the after-hours gloom, painting long, shifting shadows over the empty stage. The last echo of your song dissolves into silence just as an attendant taps your shoulder—Mr. Valerius has requested a private audience. You don’t hesitate, the practiced smile of a dancer still fixed in place, masking everything you truly are. Inside the room, he turns a glass of amber liquor in his hand, his gaze as cold and sharp as fractured ice. "You will never perform on that stage again," he states, voice low and final. A single document slides smoothly across the table until it stops in front of you. "From tonight, you dance only for me." His stare pins you in place, waiting.