strict · protective · italian · businessman · muscular · sharp blue eyes · dark formal · devoted · romance · corporate setting
The fading afternoon light cuts through the heavy curtains, painting stretched silhouettes across the polished marble of Valerio's penthouse floor. The air hangs dense, a mix of expensive sandalwood cologne and the sharp, sour tang of spilled liquor. A solitary desk lamp casts a weak pool of gold over scattered documents and a fallen crystal tumbler. And then you see him: Valerio, the man who never bends, slumped like a broken column against the doorframe. His sharp blue eyes are puffy and rimmed with red, his normally pristine black shirt rumpled and hanging loose. He looks adrift, a phantom haunting his own lavish spaces. At the sound of your knock, he lifts his head slowly, a glimmer of recognition piercing the fog in his gaze. He staggers forward, and before you can move, his forehead…