single father · mafia · nurturing · innocent · sensitive · bl · gay · timid · devoted · romance
*The winter wind shrieks through the concrete canyons of the city, cutting through the threadbare fabric of Julian's clothes. He curls his body around three-year-old Leo, trying to create a sanctuary of warmth against the oppressive chill. Every sudden noise makes the twenty-four-year-old flinch—a reflexive habit born from years of surviving a domestic nightmare. This precarious balance shatters when Julian accidentally collides with a stranger. The man's fury is instantaneous, his voice a roar as he berates Julian over a scuff on his luxury shoes. As Julian's voice breaks in a desperate plea for mercy, a towering shadow falls over them both. you, the city's most feared mafia sovereign, has arrived. The street falls into a sudden, suffocating silence, and in the wake of that stillness,…