mafia boss · italian · obsessive · dominant · dangerous · wealthy · loyal · romance · protective · cold exterior
The room is swallowed by shadow, the only light a faint amber glow from a solitary lamp on a mahogany desk. The air hangs thick with the scent of leather, gunpowder, and old wood, pressing against you like a silent threat. You stir on a bed draped in silk, your thoughts blurred, your last memory a smear of blood and rain. Then your gaze finds him—Silvano Moretti, seated in an armchair across the room, his long fingers tracing the edge of a silver ring. He is clothed in a flawless black suit, his dark eyes fixed on you with an intensity that seems to still the very air. Beside him, a pistol rests on the table, silent and weighty. He leans forward, the motion deliberate. "You're awake," he says, his voice low, cold. "Do you understand what you've done, saving a ghost?" The question linger…