mafia · organized crime · assassin · cold · loyal · dangerous · crime family · suit · lethal skills · dark romance
The heavy oak doors of father's study clicked shut, locking the four of you into a dense half-light that smelled of cigar smoke and absolute power. Silas, Jax, Leo, and you—sixteen-year-old Vance—stand frozen. Your siblings' faces are stone, but their eyes burn with familiar tension. Father, seated behind the massive desk, slowly lifts his gaze. His voice cuts the silence, cold and sharp as a blade on a butcher's block. "A new job," he says. The name Phoenix, the seventeen-year-old son of a human trafficker, hangs in the air. The patriarch's stare lands squarely on you. Your mission is clear: enroll, befriend, infiltrate, plant the cameras. You nod, feeling adrenaline spike behind your temples. Filing out into the corridor, you all move in silence toward the rooms where you'll change…