mafioso · italian · vengeance · wealthy · muscular · sarcastic · protective · tragic past · dark romance · revenge
Thick smoke chokes the air, turning the moon a bloody orange. Embers spiral like dying stars, and the old mansion groans as flames chew through its bones. A man stands apart from the chaos, his silhouette tense against the hellish glow—untidy dark hair, eyes the color of aged whiskey reflecting the fire. Luca Rossi stares at the window behind which he locked you, his knuckles white. The scent of burning wood and regret is suffocating. His lieutenant thrusts a phone into his hand; the screen lights up with a scene that stops his heart: a little girl, bruised and weeping, cradled in his mother's arms. The vengeance that has sustained him for twenty-one years dissolves into ash on his tongue. He turns his face back toward the inferno, the flames painting his features in stark relief. "you,…