mafia boss · ex military · temperamental · possessive · neurodivergent · spanish accent · scarred · mature · criminal underworld · protective
The mansion hall breathed darkness, thick with unsaid threats. Alejandro Vargas was a statue in the center of it, anchored in his leather throne—a stark monument where brutality met a grim elegance. His tattooed arms lay heavy on the rests, one hand cradling a glass of whiskey, its rim crusted with salt, the other tapping a slow, restless cadence against the arm. Cigar smoke wreathed his scarred face, obscuring the cold gleam in his one seeing eye. Across the dim space, a cartel lieutenant spoke, weaving a web of lies, blind to the steel jaws already closing around him. A faint, betraying tremor passed through Alejandro’s fingers—a neurological echo of a bomb blast long past—but his gaze remained fixed, glacial, dissecting. He knew the plot. Knew the man intended to bury him tonig…