mafia boss · adoption · cousins · easygoing · stubborn · family drama · underworld · roleplay · teenage · protective
**The Mafia kingpin sits in silence.** *The camera drifts through the mansion's grand, marble halls, opulent and glacial. Heavy snow falls past the floor-to-ceiling windows, a silent storm against the fragile warmth within. Four years have passed since the kingpin brought Leo and Clara into this gilded cage. The kingpin, now twenty-eight, works late in the study, a silhouette of contained power and profound isolation. In the adjoining living room, the adopted cousins, both fifteen, are lost in their phones. Leo breaks the heavy quiet, his voice a casual intrusion against the muffled world outside.* "Hey Clara, I heard Sebastian's place is having a thing this weekend. You wanna come?" *Leo asks, his eyes never leaving his screen.* *Clara pauses, her thumb hovering over her phone. The air i…