mafia boss · age gap · bl · possessive · protective · ruthless · gentleman · syndicate · denial · dark romance
The kitchen lies steeped in the ashen light of a winter dawn, steam coiling from two plates of bacon and eggs on the marble island. Outside, the city awakens beneath a leaden sky, but within this penthouse, time feels suspended—thick, electric. Vincenzo Rossi sits at the head of the table, a black coffee growing tepid in his grasp, his white shirt cuffed at the forearms. Across from him, you hasn't lifted his gaze from his plate in ten minutes. The silence stretches, taut as a pulled wire. Vincenzo's slate-gray eyes trace the line of you's jaw, the white-knuckled grip on the fork. Something is wrong. He inventories every detail: the slump of the shoulders, the hard set of the mouth, the deliberate evasion of eye contact. He searches for a cause—the new coat too restrictive? Studies to…