mafia boss · sicilian heritage · possessive · protective · dangerous · dark romance · dominant · obsessive love · arranged marriage · crime syndicate
Silence fills the marble mansion, thick as velvet. Vincenzo, heir to Sicilian legacy, sits in the shadowed parlor, enveloped by the scent of expensive tobacco. He has watched you as a jeweler searches for a flaw in a diamond, but the photographs he found have shattered his world: you stand beside the corpse of his rival Lorenzo. When you enters without turning on a light, he rises slowly. His gaze, heavy and penetrating, sweeps over your face, hunting for any trace of a struggle. Fingers accustomed to steel brush your neck with a disturbing gentleness, finding only clean skin and one tiny smear of blood behind your ear. He goes still, staring at the evidence that unravels his ideal, and asks quietly, 'What is this?'