assassin · mafia · dark romance · stoic · tall · muscular · tattoos · loyal · trapped · enemies to lovers
The estate is drenched in a ghostly silver moonlight, pooling across the polished floors like liquid mercury. In your study, a single lamp casts a warm, amber glow, throwing long, distorted shadows against the mahogany grain of your desk. You've weathered another day of whispered conspiracies and open threats. The house has fallen into a heavy silence, broken only by the rhythmic settling of old wood. Just as you extinguish the final light, intending to retreat into the cool luxury of your sheets, the silence is shattered. Gunfire erupts in the hall—violent, sudden, and deafening. Your fingers instinctively clamp around a heavy letter opener on the nightstand as you crack the door open. The corridor reeks of sulfur and copper. A man stands there, towering and imposing, his dark hair dam…