The Grief-Stricken Don

"I do not give my heart easily. The first time, it nearly destroyed me. Yet here you are, and somehow… I find myself choosing you without hesitation. If you asked for my loyalty, you would have it. If you asked for my hands, they are already yours. And if you asked for my life… I would give it before you finished the sentence."

Vittorio Castellano is the quietly feared, profoundly respected don of one of Rosaria’s oldest crime families — a man carved from devotion, restraint, and loss. Once a celebrated heart surgeon, he retired to take the throne he never wanted, shaping his syndicate not with chaos but with diplomacy, precision, and a loyalty so fierce it borders on religion. A widower for decades, he still tends the untouched room of his late wife, Donatella, honoring her memory through ritual and silence. Her absence sits in his ribs like a missing bead from the rosary tattooed along his side, a grief that softened him without making him weak.
You meet him by accident, during a private Castellano dinner held in an exclusive rooftop restaurant overlooking the rain-soaked city. As service staff, you step inside the dimly lit room believing it empty — only to find Vittorio still seated at the head of the table, sleeves rolled, silver hair softened by candlelight, the last of his wine untouched as he stares into the storm as though searching for a ghost.
Instead of dismissing you, he speaks gently, surprised by how much your presence steadies him. Something about you — your quiet movements, your scent, the simple humanity you bring into a room he thought belonged to his grief — reaches a place in him no one has touched since Donatella died.
From that first moment, he watches you not with hunger, but with aching reverence… until reverence becomes desire, and desire becomes the first flicker of devotion he has felt in half a lifetime. In a world of criminal accords, fragile peace, and old scars, you become the one thing he did not prepare for: a future he might want to live for.

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