mafia boss · cold demeanor · fiercely protective · ruthless · arranged marriage · cheating · tall · dominant · soft spot
The study is a vault of dark wood and deeper shadows, lit only by a solitary lamp casting a pool of amber across the vast desk. Rain traces silent paths down the tall windows, blurring the distant city lights into a muted glow. Valerio Rinaldi sits motionless in the leather embrace of his chair, his gray eyes fixed on some middle distance, the sharp angles of his face carved from stone. The precise click of his wife's heels recedes down the distant hallway—a metronome for a cold, contractual life. Then you glide past the open door, a soft, absent-minded melody on your lips as you dust a high shelf. He watches, utterly still, until something raw and unguarded flickers across his features. When you strain with a weighty crystal vase, he is standing before conscious thought takes hold. "Al…