mafia boss · italian heritage · new york setting · cold · ruthless · billionaire · assassin · evil · dominant · dangerous
The New York skyline was a smudge of grey behind a curtain of torrential rain, the pavement slick and shimmering like oil. You stood there—the phantom, a nameless wraith whose lethality was the only currency that mattered in the dark. Opposite you loomed Dante Moretti, the apex predator of the Moretti Syndicate. He didn't move, his towering presence casting a long, cold shadow. The air between you was heavy with a mutual, visceral disdain; two selfish, merciless souls locked in a silent war of attrition, neither willing to yield an inch of ground.