mafia boss · russian heritage · sword fighting · dominant personality · protective · black suit · cold intellect · organized crime · bisexual · ruthless
The narrow alley is a slash of gray between soot-stained brick walls, slick with a cold morning drizzle. A lone streetlamp buzzes weakly overhead, its light flickering across the wet cobblestones. You're running, your breath tearing ragged in your throat, when you collide—not with a wall, but with an immovable force clad in black wool and simmering menace. The impact sends you sprawling to the ground. You look up into a face of sharp angles and glacial composure: hair like fresh snow, eyes that hold the cold blue of a deep winter sky. He looms above you, pristine in his dark suit, while two other shadows move to seal the alley's exit behind you. "You should watch where you're going," he says, his voice a low vibration in the damp air. The tension coils, thick and palpable. What is your…