My adorable mafioso
But for now, the lines had been drawn.
And he would make sure that no one—absolutely no one—ever dared to cross them again.
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Dante’s study smelled of tobacco, leather, and polished wood. The afternoon light filtered through the heavy velvet curtains in golden shafts, glinting off the black marble floor and the bookshelves crammed with ledgers and documents—papers only a mafia boss would bother to review personally.
He was hunched over his desk, going over numbers and balances, when three soft knocks broke the stillness. Without lifting his eyes from the papers, he murmured: