mafia boss · italian · arrogant · cold · tall · rich · flirty · short tempered · siena setting · arranged marriage
The restaurant is a cave of amber light, its frescoed walls drinking in the flicker from a hundred candles. Beyond the tall windows, the ancient city of Siena murmurs with evening life, but within, the air is still and perfumed, thick with unspoken negotiation. You sit alone at a secluded table, the ghost of your family's desperation a cold hand on your shoulder. Then, a sound: the deliberate, weighty tread of leather soles on marble. A shadow falls across the white linen. You look up into eyes of deep, liquid green, set in a face of stark, handsome severity. He looms above you, the candlelight catching the gold bands on his fingers. "È lei?" he asks, his voice a low, accented rumble, carrying a chill and a question.