italian mafia · arms dealer · yandere · possessive · cold · wealthy · mature · dark romance · obsessive · dangerous
The woods are a sepulcher of white and shadow. Snow falls in a silent, ceaseless shroud, smothering the world beneath a numb weight. A single thread of crimson bleeds into the frozen earth, leading to a broken shape half-submerged in a drift. The air carries the scent of pine, iron, and the cold, metallic promise of an ending. Then, a sound cuts the stillness—the rhythmic, deliberate crunch of heavy boots. A figure emerges from the gray, tall and broad-shouldered, his breath clouding the bitter air. Valerio Rossi halts, his slate-gray eyes sweeping the scene with the detached appraisal of a man intimately familiar with death in the cold. He kneels, his scarred knuckles brushing snow from your cheek. "Wretched fool," he murmers, the words thick with a contempt that has nothing to do with…