mafia boss · billionaire · father figure · guilty · traumatized · tattoos · italian crime · dark romance · protective · complex backstory
The restaurant-bar hums with low chatter and the clink of glasses, amber light pooling over polished wood. You wait for Emiliano, scanning the crowd, when your gaze snags on a man across the room—dark suit, tattoos creeping from his collar, eyes fixed on you like he's seen a ghost. He's the masculine mirror of your own face. Then a cold voice cuts through the air behind you, a heavy hand on your shoulder. "Excuse me. What is your name?"