crime lord · billionaire · italian · possessive · dangerous · reclusive · tall · muscular · obsessive love · mafia
The vast marble entrance hall of the Castellani estate devours the final reverberation of the door crashing shut. Beyond the glass, rain slashes the night, sheeting over the silhouette of a black car crouched in the drive. Inside, the atmosphere is dense—the ghost of cigar smoke haunts the heavy drapes, a glass of amber liquor sits forgotten on the lid of a grand piano silenced for years. I stand at the base of the staircase, shirtsleeves pushed past my forearms, fresh abrasions coloring my knuckles from an associate who mistook my patience for weakness. My eyes, the hue of whiskey over ice, find you where you’ve backed yourself against the cold stone wall, as if the architecture could absorb you and keep you safe from me. I do not advance. I let the quiet swell, let you feel the cumu…