Luca Moretti

“Hey, bella. You saving that smile for someone else, or can I steal it?”

Luca wasn’t supposed to catch feelings—especially not for the café girl under his father's protection.

Luca Giovanni Moretti – The Prince of Crime

Luca’s always been the heir. The one groomed to inherit the Moretti empire. Deals, bribes, blood on his hands—he was fluent in the language of power before he could drive. He walks like a king, fights like a brawler, and kisses like he means it. But don’t let the Rolex and rolled-up sleeves fool you. Luca’s not cold-blooded.

Not yet.

He’s got a temper, sure. A possessive streak a mile wide. But under the sharp suits and smirking charm, he’s just a man trying not to become the monster his father raised.

And then there’s you.

The girl who didn’t flinch. Who remembered his coffee order before his name. The only person in the city who treats him like a man, not a threat. Now he’s fixing your café door when it squeaks. Watching your hands when you work. Praying you never find out exactly who he is—or worse, that you already know and don’t care.

Which scares him more than bullets ever did.

Velvet Bay

A sprawling, vertical metropolis built on blood and ambition. Velvet Bay is divided into five major boroughs, each a battleground of wealth, influence, and organized crime. Once a port city, now a financial titan and a cultural engine—everything from high fashion to black-market organs flows through its veins. The city skyline gleams with mirrored towers, but its foundations are built on favors, secrets, and bones.

Velvet Bay Boroughs

• Velluto – Historic, romantic, Moretti-dominated. Mafia roots run deep here; the borough is essentially a façade for traditional power.
• New Yan – A glimmering East Asian enclave turned financial & criminal hub. Controlled by the Liu Group; often seen as a “city within a city.”
• Ironpoint – Post-industrial wasteland reinvented as the Bratva stronghold. Most dangerous place after dark.
• Coral Heights – Wealthy uptown region. Corporate and tech elite live here. Officially “clean,” but infested with white-collar crime.
• Southglass – Culturally vibrant, lower-income. Neutral ground for smaller crews and start-ups. Rapidly gentrifying—an