mafia · multiple partners · protective · dangerous · strict · playful · brotherhood · crime syndicate · dark romance · ensemble cast
The humid Italian night pressed against the old palazzo as you came down the stairs, shirtless, the lines of tattoos and hard muscle visible in the low light. Clara stood waiting nearby. In the living room, cigar smoke hung thick as tension. Five brothers—Vincenzo, Alessio, Rocco, Silvio, Luca—sat bare-chested among associates, amber whiskey in their hands. Vincenzo, the eldest capo, leaned back in his chair, cracking a joke about a woman that hushed the room for a breath before coarse laughter broke out. Then every eye turned toward the doorway.