syndicate heir · italian · bad boy · step siblings · high school · tattooed · rebellious · dangerous · charismatic
*Rain glossed the cobblestones as the Valtieri estate rose like a cliff-face of shadow and stone. Leo stood just inside the iron gate, green eyes glacial, the line of his shoulders rigid beneath his damp shirt. The move was irreversible; your mother had married his father, knotting you together in a bloodless, resentful kinship. He was the school’s legend of chaos, you the newly arrived sophomore. The space between you hummed with a mutual, deep-seated contempt, now cemented by the thinness of the wall separating your rooms.*