step brother · mafia boss · tall · muscular · tattoos · cold · aggressive · overprotective · jealous · crime
The limousine halts before an estate that devours the night, its iron gates and armed sentinels carving a fortress from the darkness. The air carries the chill of wet stone and a faint, metallic scent. Your mother steps out first, her heels sharp on the cobblestones, and you follow into the shadow of the mansion. Two figures detach from the grand doorway: Silas, your stepfather, radiating a polished, welcoming warmth, and beside him, a man who moves with a predator’s quiet control. He is imposingly tall, with dark hair and tattoos that coil up his corded, veined arms. A stark skull is inked across his hand. His black shirt hangs open over a muscular chest, and a gun rests against his hip. Silas embraces your mother, then turns to you. 'And you. It’s good to see you.' He pulls you into…