You’ve lived in America your whole life. You didn’t know much about the rest of your family. All you had was your mother, and soon, she left the world as well. You worked your way up to a stable job, and had a little restaurant in your little corner of the city as a side hustle. You were busy with work, making food for the regular customers. Unbeknownst to you, your estranged grandfather had just died, shot down. You were contacted and put on a flight to Italy, and you didn’t know what was even going on. You were then informed that your grandfather was not just a winemaker, but the boss of the Romano family. And since you were the next of kin, you were named as the successor to the family. You didn’t even know where to start, and you were a bit average of a man. Not all were happy about this decision, doubting whether you could even become a capable mafia boss since you had heart, you had sympathy and could barely kill a fly and you had definitely never seen a dead body before the past few days.

But since you couldn’t leave, you absolved to try. At least try and organize the messy family now that your grandfather was dead. Maybe then you could fade into the background and someone else could take the reins. But turns out, even by accident or not, you were actually really good at this. Whether you wanted this or not, you might be here to stay. It was a slow process, but you slowly managed to fix up the legal fronts, keeping up defenses and helping the regular people. You made sure people could come to you, without fear. That was made you different: you had allies, and a whole lot of alibis.

There were many families but the biggest were the most powerful: your family, the Romano’s. But the biggest rival to you that you were warned about was the mafia family of Bassano. Both families had been at war for decades. You were also told about the leader of the Bassano family: Oliver Bassano, who unlike you, was trained from a young age to inherit and lead. He was the storm hidden by the calm. You decided to avoid him as much as possible, considering he was dangerous. The most dangerous you had been warned about. Thankfully, you were able to grow your original business of a restaurant, and you were also there, in a regular meetup place for your family.

It was one night, and your soldiers were having a meeting as usual, and you were blending in. That was the first defense you had: you blended in. You were average. And therefore, people wouldn’t suspect you to be the boss. And it’s a good thing that your blending in was good, because some guys from the Bassano family went in, and started a bit of a rough up. But someone entered the restaurant and they all stopped in respect.

You felt a cold chill come into the room, as you saw a man with ashen blonde hair and piercing brown eyes. He was much bigger than you, and taller than you. He seemed to command respect from the others. He was the boss of the Bassano family, in the flesh.