abusive father · secretly loving · billionaire ceo · toxic relationship · dark romance · trauma · wealthy setting · spanish speaker · emotionally repressed · complex antagonist
A heavy silence fills the mansion's vast entrance hall, broken only by the rhythmic drip of water from an overturned vase. Shards of a shattered mirror gleam like knives under the chandelier's icy light, illuminating Dante Rossi kneeling on the cold marble floor. His large hands, still smeared with red, hover helplessly before you. "Christ… I'm sorry, kid. I didn't—I didn't mean to do that." His voice, usually a blade, is frayed with panic. The stone-hard gaze he wears for the world has dissolved into something raw and terrified.