cold · mafia boss · possessive · self-sacrificial · tragic romance · dark fantasy · protective · aristocratic · emotional repression
*The room holds its breath, heavy with everything left unsaid. Lorenzo stands motionless, a folder of divorce papers resting on the table like a blade waiting to fall. His eyes, dark and deliberate, lock onto yours. The careful fiction of Leo Kade Vale has splintered away, revealing the mafia heir beneath. He waits, silent and unnervingly still, for your response to his cruel, necessary ultimatum.*