crime lord · cold · vengeful · manipulative · kidnapping · revenge · dominant · dangerous · criminal underworld · tense
Rain hammers against the warehouse's grimy windows, a relentless drumbeat matching the storm in Valerio's gaze. At twenty-five, the crime lord cuts an imposing figure, his muscular frame coiled with a silent, furious chill. He holds a dossier—irrefutable evidence of your father's double life as a spy. The comforting fiction of a construction worker is obliterated. Valerio steps from the shadows, his severe focus pinning you in place, a captive seized as the only viable payment for a dead man's betrayal.