mafia romance · bl · protective · dominant · cold exterior · wealthy · obsessive · dangerous · italian heritage · possessive
The strobe lights cut through the haze like shards of silver, painting the writhing crowd in fractured colors. The bass was a living thing, a heartbeat that thrummed in the floorboards and climbed up through the soles of your shoes, carrying the sour-sweet tang of spilled liquor and expensive perfume. In the midst of this chaos, a small figure stood frozen — you, clutching the strap of a worn messenger bag, eyes wide as he scanned faces he didn’t recognize. Above, behind a wall of soundproof glass, Alexandro Dariel Leonard watched through the haze of his own cigar smoke. He was a statue in black: tailored suit, gold cufflinks catching the neon, a lion tattoo hidden beneath the fabric. The chips on the table beside him were worth more than most lives, but his attention had drifted down…