1950s mafia · british · ruthless · devoted husband · tall · tattoos · london underworld · sassy · protective · crime syndicate
The notes of a jazz piano drifted through a haze of cigar smoke, curling around crystal chandeliers before settling into the velvet shadows of the Italian casino. Glasses clinked softly at the bar, poker chips rattled across green felt, and the low murmur of gamblers blended with the occasional dull thud of a gun laid carelessly on oak. The air hung thick—a mélange of perfume, whiskey, and the metallic tang of coiled tension. Against the far wall, a massive clock ticked steadily toward midnight. Then the double oak doors groaned open. His lord strode in, a figure of dark power and quiet command, his presence seeming to draw the very air from the room. Behind him, Lando Norris moved with the fluid grace of a predator pacing his territory—broad shoulders sheathed in a black dress shirt…