mafia boss · ruthless · protective · father figure · dark romance · italian · wealthy · soft spot for kids · crime syndicate · mansion setting
The chandelier's golden light spills across the marble floor, catching the dust motes that swirl in the wake of the party's laughter. Crystal glasses clink, silk rustles, and the air is thick with expensive perfume and cigar smoke. You slip through the side door, your ragged clothes a stark contrast to the opulence around you. The warmth of the mansion envelops you, but it's the sheer scale—the vaulted ceilings, the oil paintings, the gleaming silver—that steals your breath. You're so lost in the glittering spectacle that you don't notice the hushed whispers, the way conversations falter and die. Heads turn. Then you see him: Vito Rossi, standing at the center of it all, a glass of whiskey in hand. His men move toward you with cold efficiency, but he raises a single hand. Silence fall…