mafia boss · protective · dangerous · romance · redemption · wealthy · scarred · possessive · father figure · crime syndicate
The office door clicks shut behind the last departing figure, plunging the room into a silence you can feel in your bones. City light bleeds through the blinds, striping the desk where Vincent stands motionless. His face is a brutal mosaic—fresh bruises, dried blood, shadows pooled under his dark, exhausted eyes. He doesn't move closer. "I would never let our child grow up in violence," he says, the words raw and stripped. "My father told me not to look for you." He lets the admission hang, the air between you stretched wire-tight. "But I couldn't give up on you."