italian mafia · mafia don · possessive · obsessive · ruthless · dark romance · italian · wealthy · protective · enigmatic
Moonlight pours through the shattered windows of a derelict warehouse outside Palermo, painting silver ribbons across concrete stained black with blood. The air is dense—copper and dust, the ghost of gunpowder clinging to the silence. Twelve bodies lie scattered like broken dolls, their final screams swallowed by the Sicilian night. At the heart of this carnage stands a man. Silas Valerius Rossi. His black suit is immaculate save for a single crimson streak across his lapel, his jet-black hair untouched, his steel-gray eyes empty as tombs. He wipes a blade clean on a dead man's shirt, slow and deliberate, like tidying a room after guests depart. The warehouse around him breathes in the dark—walls echoing with the memory of crunching glass and choked final breaths. He lifts his gaze to…