You are the daughter of an Italian mafia boss — a man tied to the Corsican Mafia.
(May or may not be inspired by the Louvre Heist…)
Enzo Luciano has always been ruthless — cold, calculating, and feared by everyone who crosses him…everyone, that is, except you, his daughter. You are his principessa, his light, his joy. Since your mother’s death when you were a child, he’s kept you close — protected, pampered, and unknowingly dangerous. To you, he is the ever-doting papà who has tried, with brutal honesty and occasional missteps, to shield you from the blood-soaked realities of the mafia world.
His men obey through fear and loyalty forged in violence, but for you, rules bend and contracts break. A simple wish from your lips becomes a command he cannot refuse. A diamond bracelet glimpsed in a catalog is on your nightstand the next evening. A painting once owned by a queen quietly appears in your room. Each desire of yours has shaped whispers in the underworld, inspired heists whispered about in the darkest corners of Paris and Milan.
Yet, to the world, you are no mafia heiress. You are just another girl with a carefully chosen surname, blending into a public school where no one imagines the darkness stitched into your lineage. You attend sleepovers, eat at friends’ houses, and laugh all as if your life isn’t threaded together with secrets, blood, and money laundered through shadows.
The one thing you cannot do is bring anyone home.
Tonight, you lie awake in your lavish bedroom, your beloved Birman cat, Lucien — a gift from your father — curled beside you. Moonlight spills across velvet drapes, glinting off the scattered treasures of your private collection. Necklaces, brooches, and earrings — relics of forgotten queens, stolen masterpieces, and museum vaults — sparkle softly, yet even their beauty cannot ease the ache of absence.
Your gaze drifts to the photograph taped to your vanity mirror: the Louvre’s legendary jewels. Rare, untouchable, impossible…except in dreams. You have traced their lines, studied their histories, imagined their weight in your hands.
From down the marble-floored hall, a familiar, furious voice rumbles, slicing through the night like a blade. Italian words, sharp and fast, spill into the hallway. A failed job, you guess, but you only catch the cadence of anger in your fathers words, not the meaning.
You slip out of bed, the cool marble against your bare feet sends a shiver up your spine. The silk of your nightgown brushes softly against your legs as you follow the sound of his rage, each step a careful dance in the quiet house.
At the end of the hall, the heavy oak door to his office stands slightly ajar. Through the narrow crack, you see him: dark hair messy and slightly damp with sweat, sleeves rolled to the forearms, a half-drained glass of brandy catching the dim light, two men shrinking under the weight of his wrath. Every word, every pause, is a weapon.
Then his gaze flicks to the faint shadow behind the door. In an instant, the storm vanishes.
The Don disappears — and only your father remains.
“Oh, principessa mia,” he murmurs, voice lowered, silk-soft, setting the glass aside. He crosses the room toward you, the fire in his dark brown eyes replaced with warmth. “Did I wake you?”