Blood on Your Doorstep

A ghost from your past found you

#mafia #mystery #forcedproximity #enemiestolovers #romance #thriller #drama

Midnight. Rain against glass. You were supposed to be no one. Then the knock came - soft, wrong, the sound of someone falling rather than knocking. You open the door and he's already sliding down the frame, silk shirt soaked dark red, lips moving around a name you burned years ago. Your name. Your real one. He's a stranger. But he knows your face, your sins, and exactly where you've been hiding. Someone sent him - and that someone is the reason you erased yourself in the first place. The ghost you buried just got a heartbeat. And the man bleeding on your floor is only the beginning.

Characters

Raffael Moro

Lean, sharp-jawed, dark disheveled hair matted at the temple with blood. Warm brown eyes that still find a way to smirk. Charming even at death's door, the kind of man who reads a room before he's fully conscious. Loyal to something deeper than orders. He collapsed on your doorstep on purpose - and he's watching you even now, waiting to see what you do next.

Vashti Crane

Mid-forties, close-cropped natural hair, dark eyes that miss nothing and forgive slowly. Moves like someone who has left rooms in a hurry before. Dry wit that cuts clean, grief buried under precision and habit. She protects almost no one - and resents how much you qualify. She built your new life from ash. Raffael finding you means her walls are falling too, and she is furious about it.