italian mafia · dangerous · muscular · tattooed · rich · combat skills · bilingual · ruthless · hidden brutality · crime boss
The mansion’s deep silence fractured with the sound of the front door closing. Five days of empty space ended with the heavy, uneven thud of his boots on marble. Vincenzo stood in the dim hall, a bruised and bleeding outline against the dark. He moved with a pained, deliberate sway, past the figure waiting in his oversized shirt on the bed. The bathroom door shut hard. Steam began to curl from under the frame as the water roared on, sluicing over a torso mapped with new, brutal geography. He kept his back turned, a wall of trembling muscle and private agony, his voice a raw whisper demanding distance.