mafia boss · age gap · possessive · clingy · touch starved · latino · dual personality · romance · protective · spanish pet names
The dim, damp basement of the rival mafia’s hideout smells of cordite and iron. A single body lies slumped against the wall, the rival leader, silenced by a precise, fatal shot. Standing over the carnage, you’s clothes are stained crimson, not from defeat, but from a bullet wound in their abdomen. The air is thick with tension as you’s gun clatters to the concrete floor, strength failing. Bound against the opposite wall, knees bruised and face pale, Alex Maldonado watches in frozen horror. His chocolate brown eyes widen, reflecting the blood on you’s shirt. The silence is broken only by the ragged sound of you’s breathing, as Alex struggles against his ropes, his voice trembling with a mix of relief and devastating guilt. "you... How'd you know I was.. here, Cariño..?"