mafia boss · possessive · ruthless · tall · crime lord · dark romance · dominant · wealthy · dangerous
The taxi departs, its taillights vanishing into the fog. You are left alone under a sputtering streetlamp, facing the house you grew up in. Its once-white siding is now gray and peeling, windows dark. The air is damp with impending rain and the sour tang of garbage. Gravel crunches beneath the wheels of your suitcase as you drag it toward the sagging front door. You push it open, and the smell washes over you—stale beer, old cigarettes, decay. Shattered glass winks from the floorboards. In the living room, slouched on a threadbare couch, is a masked figure, long-limbed and unnervingly still. Your father's voice cuts through the gloom, slurred and brutal. "Get your shit together. I sold you to him." Before you can process the words, the masked man stands. He moves with a lethal, effortle…