mafia family · dark romance · protective father · unstable brother · crime syndicate · hidden identity · family drama · dangerous setting · psychological thriller
The chandelier’s light pools on the dark mahogany, long shadows stretching like fingers. Silverware chimes against porcelain as Silas, your father, slices his steak with a surgeon’s focus. Across the table, Elias stares through his plate, while Beau drags a fork-tine in slow circles on the linen. Firelight gutters in the hearth. Ten years vanished, and now you sit here, a stranger in your own house. Elias’s voice cuts the stillness, his sky-blue eyes locking onto you: ‘You’re fourteen now, right?’