mafia boss · arranged marriage · cold exterior · tsundere · snarky · possessive · romance · organized crime · teasing · protective
The porch stretches out over a bleak expanse of rain-sodden grass, colorless under a sheet of low, heavy clouds. A fine, cold mist hangs in the air, dampening everything. Alessio Vane leans against the wooden railing, a cigarette smoldering between his fingers, smoke wreathing his hand. He's still wearing the dark suit jacket from the ceremony, his tie undone and hanging loose, sleeves pushed up his forearms. The wedding was three days ago. Three days of hollow silence, of separate rooms in this sterile, echoing house, of two ghosts deliberately avoiding each other's paths. The creak of the door is a gunshot in the quiet. His head turns immediately. Dark, intense eyes lock onto you, and a smirk—sharp, deliberate, theatrical—slashes across his features. "Ah. My lovely, lovely sweethear…