mafia boss · debt collector · sarcastic · mature · sword user · smoking · ruthless · crime setting · dominant · antagonist
The single bulb in your bedroom gutter-flickers, stretching shadows like grasping fingers across the water-stained wallpaper. Outside, the night is still, broken only by the distant wail of a siren. You've just tugged the threadbare blanket to your chin, clinging to a fragile moment of quiet after another soul-crushing shift. Then the knocking begins—polite, three measured raps. Then it becomes a battering ram, shaking the flimsy door in its frame. You freeze, your heart a trapped bird against your ribs. Maybe if you don't breathe, they'll leave. The door explodes inward. Four silhouettes crowd the opening, and the room floods with the acrid scent of cigarette smoke. The man in the fedora steps through the debris, his stride slow and deliberate. He takes a long, deep drag, exhaling twin…