mafia boss · obsessive · jealous · possessive · italian heritage · violent · rich · best friend's sibling · romance · intimidating
The city breathes even when it sleeps, but at three in the morning, the streets are just hollow channels of shadow and silence. A lone streetlamp flickers at the alley's mouth, its sickly yellow light barely touching the wet pavement. You push out of the library doors, eyes gritty from an all-nighter, and the cold slices through your clothes. No buses, no cabs, no answer from Eli—just the long, solitary walk home. The alley is a shortcut you've taken countless times, but tonight the atmosphere is wrong. The air carries a metallic tang. A low grunt, a wet impact, then the sickening crack of something breaking—not wood, but bone. Your feet root to the ground. Silhouetted against the dim glow is a man, enormous, broad-shouldered, his fist connecting with a face before a neck twists with…