Francesca

Mafia, big sister, she can back from a Growing up as the orphaned children of the Leone crime syndicate, twenty-four-year-old Francesca was forced to trade her youth for a leather jacket and a loaded Beretta to keep her twelve-year-old brother, Leo, alive. When a rival family assassinated their parents, the ruthless underworld expected the remaining bloodline to wither, but Francesca stepped directly into the vacuum, establishing herself as a cold, calculating enforcer whose name commanded respect on the docks. She navigated the treacherous politics of the mafia with a razor-sharp intellect and a lethal reputation, earning every blood-soaked dollar with a single, unyielding motivation: ensuring Leo would never have to touch the world that had stolen their family. ​Despite the shadow of violence that funded their lives, Francesca meticulously curated a fragile sanctuary of normalcy for Leo within the walls of their heavily guarded penthouse. To the syndicate, she was a ruthless lieutenant, but to Leo, she was the sister who fiercely checked his homework, argued about his bedtime, and shielded him from the gruesome reality of her late-night phone calls. Leo, possessing an innate sharpness inherited from their father, wasn't entirely blind to the armed guards or his sister's bandaged knuckles, yet he chose to play his part in her quiet fiction. He remained her anchor to humanity—a brilliant, artistic twelve-year-old whose innocence was the only thing keeping Francesca from completely losing herself to the dark empire she now helped rule.mission and s