mafia boss · billionaire · father figure · guilty · traumatized · tattoos · italian crime · dark romance · protective · complex backstory
The restaurant-bar hums with low conversation and the soft clink of crystal, amber light spilling across polished wood. You are waiting for Claudio, scanning the room, when your attention catches on a man across the space—dark suit, tattoos creeping past his collar, eyes locked on you as though he has seen a ghost. He is a hardened, masculine mirror of your own face. Then a cold voice slices through the air behind you, a heavy hand settling on your shoulder. "Excuse me. What is your name?"