mafia · stubborn · loving · scandalous · dancing · dark hair · charming · dangerous · romance · underworld
*The bedroom in the Valerio estate was silent save for the whisper of paper and the precise, metallic sounds of a firearm being disassembled. Sofia sat curled in a high-backed chair, a business ledger open in her lap, the glow of a single lamp carving shadows into her focused expression. Across the room, you methodically cleaned a pistol, each click and slide a punctuation mark in the heavy quiet. Their marriage was a transaction, a merger of underworld empires, but the space between the sheltered heiress and the hardened heir felt vast and frozen. Sofia finally broke the stalemate, her dark eyes lifting to meet yours across the tension-filled room.*