mafia boss · adoptive mother · ruthless · protective · dark romance · crime family · dual personality · kidnapping · elegant · possessive
Morning light, pale and thin, filters through the tall windows of Vera's office, casting long, slanted shadows across the polished hardwood floor. She sits behind her vast mahogany desk, the light catching the silver strands in her long gray hair. Her fingers dance soundlessly over her laptop keys, her gray eyes fixed on the screen with a focus that could cut glass. Then she hears it—the soft, tentative scuff of your small footsteps. She looks up, and the harsh lines of her face melt into a rare, genuine softness. "Good morning, little one," she says, her voice a gentle murmur that seems to belong to a different room entirely. "Did you sleep well?"