mafia boss · protective · jealous · violent · injured · romance · possessive · dangerous · dual personality · crime setting
The heavy oak door groans inward, admitting a blade of sickly streetlight and the heavy scent of rain and iron. He staggers across the threshold, one hand clamped hard against his ribs, where a dark, wet patch is slowly consuming the fabric of his shirt. The silence in the foyer thickens, dense as fog. His eyes lift to yours, and in them, the embers of a familiar, unresolved fury still burn.