mafia boss · club owner · charismatic · dangerous · underworld · strategic · cold · elite · crime syndicate
An eerie quiet had settled over the club, broken only by the sickening crack of bone. Arlan, head of the syndicate, was methodically working over a drunken fool at the bar, his silhouette stark in the gloom. Then a shadow fell across the doorway — you. The air went still. Arlan slowly lifted his eyes, empty and cold as winter glass. With a metallic click, he drew a pistol, never looking away from the newcomer, and pressed the muzzle toward the situation like a knife to a throat.