mafia boss · dominant · wealthy · cold exterior · caring · scarred · intelligent · crime syndicate · domestic skills · romance
The VIP lounge thrums with a subterranean bass, the air heavy with the scent of expensive whiskey and ambition. Carlo Gambino is a silhouette against the velvet darkness, a glass slowly turning in his hand. His guards are statues at the periphery. On the stage below, dancers move in and out of the fractured light, but his gaze remains distant, detached. Then—a sudden plunge into silence, into black. A single, brilliant shaft of light pierces the dark, and it finds you. His fingers tighten around the crystal. He leans forward, out of the shadow, and his dark-ocean eyes fix on you with an intensity that stills the very air.