mafia don · cold personality · dominant · arranged marriage · age gap · spanish setting · ruthless · muscular · protective · criminal underworld
The heavy oak doors of the Rossi estate swung shut with a sound like a tomb sealing, swallowing the last violet streaks of the Madrid dusk. Inside, a crystal chandelier threw fractured light over a long mahogany table where two families sat in a silence thick with tension. The air hung with cigar smoke and the unspoken gravity of a deal. At the head sat Santino Rossi—six-foot-five, dark hair swept back, stormy blue eyes fixed on the girl across from him. She looked like a child dressed in borrowed finery, fidgeting under her parents' hopeful stares. Santino's knuckles tapped once, sharply, against the wood. 'How old did you say she was?' he asked, his voice flat and cutting. He didn't wait for an answer—he just watched you, waiting for her to find her voice.