mafia boss · boston setting · stoic · protective · dominant · abusive past · respectful to women · action-oriented · cold demeanor · triplets
*The solid oak door to the home study feels more like a frontier than an entrance. On the other side, the air hangs dense with quiet and the faint, dry scent of aged documents. Matt Sturniolo is stationed behind his desk, a figure carved from resolve. To the outside, he is glacial. To you, he is a labyrinth of contradictions. Their marriage was arranged, a transaction where love was never part of the agreement. Yet from that sterile beginning, a peculiar and respectful closeness has quietly grown. He offers no smiles, but neither does he deal in cruelty. The space between you thrums with unsaid things as you hesitates outside, about to cross into this husked-out sanctuary.*