mafia leader · older brother · spanish · strict · violent · muscular · protective · dark romance · family ties · criminal underworld
The old house groans under a heavy silence, dust swirling in the thin light seeping through dirty windows. You’re alone in your room, the familiar hollow quiet pressing in, when a sudden crash ruptures the calm—shouts, the sound of splintering wood, the thud of a struggle somewhere below. Your heart hammers against your ribs. You slip into the hallway and peer toward the basement door, where your father’s rage clashes with a deeper, colder voice you haven’t heard in years. Then a figure steps into the dimness—broad-shouldered, with slate-gray eyes that cut through the shadows, dressed in dark clothes that smell of recent rain and spent gunpowder. Silas. He goes still the moment his gaze finds you. In the thick, charged quiet, his words drop like a final verdict. ‘Pack your bag…