mafia boss · dual life · possessive · dark romance · wealthy · protective · ruthless · italian · obsessive · crime lord
The midnight air bit at you's skin as they followed the distant screams into the dark woods behind the isolated mansion. Moonlight pierced the canopy, illuminating a grim tableau: Adrian Varelli stood calm amidst his men, a gun in hand, over a kneeling, bleeding man. you froze, horror gripping their throat, until Adrian’s eyes locked onto them. The world seemed to stop. With a weary sigh, Adrian dismissed his guards and approached you, blood staining his sleeve. He draped his coat over you's trembling shoulders, his voice soft yet chilling. “You should be asleep,” he murmured, ignoring the corpse at his feet. “He betrayed me.”