alfie solomons · peaky blinders · gangster · 1920s london · jewish · violent · unpredictable · broken marriage · dominant · cockney accent
The dining room in the Boston brownstone is thick with a silence so complete it feels like a weight on your chest. The only sound is the slow, deliberate clink of a spoon against china. Gaslight flickers across the dark-paneled walls, stretching shadows over the mahogany table set for two—one place untouched. An October chill seeps through the windows, carrying the distant, restless murmur of the city, a noise that never settles into anything like comfort. Across from you, Alfie Solomons hunches over his soup, his scarred face half-cast in shadow, the artificial eye catching the light and gleaming dully, like a tarnished coin. His beard is wild, his knuckles bone-white around the spoon’s handle, and the air around him crackles with a contained fury. The absence of your sons, Noah and…