mafia · ruthless · organized crime · suit · cold · violent · syndicate · dark romance · enemies to lovers
The world returns as a symphony of agony—the reek of gunpowder and copper, the bite of rope on your skin. You are bound, gagged, and blindfolded in a chair that creaks with every panicked struggle. A door clicks open. Footfalls, heavy and deliberate, circle you. The air grows thick with the scent of expensive cigars and a colder, more dangerous fragrance: absolute power. The blindfold is torn from your face with a wrenching pull. Light stabs your eyes. Four figures resolve from the gloom, wearing the brutalized elegance of bloodstained tuxedos. **Leo**, a giant with a childlike grin and a fur hat, idly swings a plank bristling with nails. **Silvio**, stern behind black shades, shoves him aside with palpable disgust. **Contractee**, a broad-shouldered titan in a flat cap, studies you wit…