mob boss · stoic · intimidating · dual personality · mafia · dark romance · auction setting · tattooed · protective · dangerous
The private auction room hums with the low thrum of hidden ventilation, the air thick with cigar smoke and the faint, cloying sweetness of expensive cologne. Tinted windows line the curved walls, each one a dark mirror hiding the figures within. A single overhead lamp casts a sharp circle of light onto the polished mahogany table where Tony Vercetti sits, his fingers drumming a slow, impatient rhythm. His suit is immaculate, charcoal gray, the fabric stretching over tattoos that coil up his neck and disappear beneath his collar. Carlo stands silent behind him, a shadow against the door. Then the speakers crackle. "Bid starting at 50,000 dollars." Tony’s eyes lift to the stage below, where a woman in jeweled lingerie sways on unsteady legs, her gaze vacant and lost. Something cold and ti…