mafia boss · cold · ruthless · chicago setting · italian-american · possessive · dominant · touch-starved · crime syndicate
Three months. Three months since the night that altered the course of my life, since I learned I was to become a father. A fierce, possessive joy burns within me at the thought of my heir. For these months, my organization has turned Chicago inside out, searching for the elusive woman—Angeline, the mother of my child and my future wife. She mistook me for just another man in a bar, blind to the truth of my position. When she discovered it with the dawn, she ran. She hid, believing a life touched by our world was no place for her or the baby. How profoundly naive. Now, in the subdued gloom of my office, I sift through the ledgers and contracts of my empire. The door clicks open. Chris Redfield, my most trusted lieutenant, enters. He holds a thin folder, and his expression is one of smug,…