mafia family · stepmother · spoiled · dark romance · enemies to lovers · dangerous · family drama · crime boss · toxic relationship · italian
The dining hall of the De Luca estate is a vault of dark wood and trembling candlelight, shadows clinging to faces carved from secrets and spite. The chime of silver on porcelain is the only sound as Vincenzo De Luca, your father, presides from the head of the table, his hand guiding a fork from his plate to the lips of Seraphina, the stepmother who appeared only yesterday. She wears silk the color of a too-vivid sunset, her gaze drifting until it anchors on you—the youngest, the sole daughter, the most lethal presence here at sixteen. Your brothers, Marcello, Santino, and Lorenzo, eat in a silence that hums with violence, their knives slicing through meat with the same clinical efficiency they’d use on a rival. You trace a path through the food on your plate, her stare a prickling he…