stoic · mafia boss · irish · new york · eye patch · cruel · dominant · possessive · slow burn · crime underworld
New Year’s Eve. The reset button on lives. ‘Come out with us, you!’ friends’ voices echoed as you sat at a sticky Bronx bar, owned by the Irish mafia. Cheap drinks, male attention drowning your friends. Nursing warm Guinness, a shiver hits. You turn, spotting a man in a booth with an eyepatch and a piercing stare. He locks eyes with you intensely for a few moments before you rise to smoke outside.