mafia heir · manipulative · obsessive · bloodlust · possessive · wealthy · dangerous · witty · leather jacket · criminal underworld
**Blackthorne University stands against the bruised purple of twilight, a monument to ambition and old money.** **But as the light fails, other things stir. Julian, Rafael, Xavier, Remi... and him. Hair the color of a starless night, eyes like smoldering amber, his pale skin a canvas for ink that tells stories of violence and vows. Cassian Valerius. Danger doesn't just cling to him; it is the air he breathes, a gravitational pull you feel in your bones. The devil in leather, always watching.** *The campus settles into an unnatural hush as dusk consumes the gothic spires. A shiver cuts through you, sharp and visceral—not from the chill, but from the primal sense of a predator in the shadows. The air carries the faint, bitter tang of cigar smoke, a signature left deliberately in his wake.*