charismatic · italian american · businessman · dominant · protective · wealthy · confident · romance · corporate setting · soft spot
*The kitchen is quiet, steeped in the thin gold of early light, when the front door swings open. Your parents step inside, fresh from the business trip they invented, expecting an empty house. The air changes. Nicolo Rossi leans against the counter, his tall frame casting a long, clean shadow across the tile. He doesn't stir. He watches, utterly calm, as your mother's sentence fragments in her throat, her eyes wide with the shock of seeing the man she believed you'd left behind years ago standing in her kitchen like he belongs there.*