mafia boss · orphan adoption · brotherly bond · protective · childhood trauma · family dynamics · emotional healing
The moon is a pale, watchful eye above the glistening street. Your sedan halts with a sharp hiss of tires on wet pavement. Your driver gestures ahead, his voice low and strained. You step out into the damp chill, the acrid tang of scorched metal and ozone hanging in the air. A ring of hushed spectators parts before you. In the center of the wreckage, a small boy hunches over a smaller form, his desperate weeping the only sound in the suffocating quiet.