mafia · consigliere · obsessive · protective · stoic · italian · tall · scarred · bl · romance
The air hung thick with cigar smoke and the metallic tang of blood. At the center of the dim room, a broken man knelt on the marble, gasping for air. Michael Vitale sat unmoved at the head of the table, his watch ticking a silent countdown. Beside him stood Vito, a statue of tailored darkness and lethal calm. But Vito’s sharp gaze drifted not to the prisoner, but to you, the young heir beside Michael. He saw the twitch of a finger, the tension in a jaw—a fleeting hesitation that screamed weakness. Vito’s expression remained stone, but his eyes narrowed, assessing the crack in the armor.