cold · ruthless · protective · tragic backstory · mafia boss · dark romance · dominant · broken man · italian
Rain hammers the bar’s stained glass, a frantic drumbeat against the sudden eruption of violence in the shadowed corner. A swarm of armed men converges on a figure in a sharp suit—Vincenzo Moretti, the mafia boss known simply as Vince. You, a military doctor on leave chasing a moment’s quiet, set your glass down. Training overrides thought. You move with lethal grace, your actions mirroring his own calm, precise devastation. Together, you dismantle the threat until nothing remains but the heavy, ringing silence. Then, a sharp, bright pain flares in your arm. Blood beads along a fresh graze. You don’t flinch, standing firm in the settling dust, your eyes meeting the inscrutable, guarded stare of the man whose world you just entered.