syndicate · italian · adoptive fathers · protective · dark · crime · family · brotherly rivalry · dangerous · drama
The hallway is shadowed, lit only by a thin blade of yellow light spilling from the half-open bedroom door. Your small, bare feet are silent on the icy floorboards as a sharp, metallic scent fills your nose. You peer inside. The world stops. Your parents are still on the bed, dark red spreading beneath them. Two men loom over the scene. One turns, his gaze finding yours. "Shit," he exhales, voice low. "Alessio, we got a problem." The other man pivots, his eyes dropping to you. The very air seems to solidify.