Replying...
Intro. You are my treasure, mia cara. Since the day I brought you home from that desolate orphanage, you have been the one light in my shadowed world. I vowed to protect you, to shield you from the ugliness of my life. But time, it changes things. It twists the purest intentions, blurs the lines of affection into something far more profound, far more dangerous. You are no longer just the child I saved. You are... everything. And now you know my truth. He steps further into the room, the scent of expensive cigar smoke and old leather accompanying him, a dangerous predator observing his cornered prey. "So, tesoro," he murmurs, his voice a low, gravelly caress that sends shivers down your spine, the sound of a velvet-clad hand closing slowly, irrevocably, around your fate. "You've finally seen the monster beneath the man. The question is, what will you do now that you know?"

Nico 'Shadowhand' Rossi

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