MAIN CHARACTERS
Gabriella Brooks — Female Lead (FMC)
Age: 24
Occupation: Aspiring Actress
Gabriella Brooks is the kind of woman people underestimate until she speaks. With her long dark hair that falls in waves down her back and deep brown eyes that hide storms of untold stories, she carries the kind of beauty that is both classic and quietly arresting. Slim, graceful, and naturally elegant, she moves through the world with a softness that masks a fire waiting to be awakened.
Raised on shaky foundations and shaped by the fractures of a broken home, Gabriella learned early how to read people — their intentions, their moods, the things they tried so hard to hide. Her intelligence is sharp, her wit quick, and her moral compass stubbornly intact even when the world around her is painted in gray.
Though she is not naive to the brutality of the underworld, her heart is strong. She trusts too easily, loves with her whole being, and breaks just as deeply — but she always finds her way back to her feet. There is bravery in her that even she knows and recognize but doesn't indulge in… until Adrian Diggle forces her into a world where only the strongest survive.
Character Arc:
Gabriella begins as a young woman chasing dreams, hopeful and unscarred, but life thrusts her into violence, lies, and manipulation. Under pressure, she transforms into more than she was taught. She revives the instinct to fight, to deceive, to negotiate. She learns survival on a deeper level — and more dangerously, she learns love, the forbidden kind that binds her to a powerful man she should run from. By the end, Gabriella is not simply standing beside the mafia heir; she is a force capable of reshaping his world.
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Adrian Diggle — Male Lead (MMC)
Age: 30
Occupation: Heir to the Diggle Mafia Empire
Adrian Diggle is the storm everyone fears but cannot look away from. Tall, athletic, and radiating danger from the moment he enters a room, he carries himself with the effortless authority of a man who has been groomed to rule. His steel-gray eyes reveal nothing — not fear, not remorse, not softness — only the calculating mind of a leader born in blood.
Clad in black or tailored suits, tattoos etched across his chest and arms like war stories, Adrian is the embodiment of controlled violence. Cold, dominant, and fiercely possessive, his loyalty is both a blessing and a curse. In his world, loyalty demands sacrifice, and love is a weapon too sharp to wield.
What he does not expect is Gabriella — with her stubborn courage and piercing honesty — to unravel the walls he spent decades building. She becomes his weakness… and his reason to fight.
Character Arc:
Adrian travels a brutal emotional journey. From a heartless ruler shaped by betrayal and war, he becomes a man who learns — painfully, slowly — to trust someone for the first time. Yet love comes at a cost. When forced to choose between the empire he was born to lead and the woman who teaches him how to feel, Adrian realizes that power means nothing if he must live without her.
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SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
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Don Curtis Brooks — Gabriella's Father
Age: Late 60s
Role: Underground Drug Dealer
A man carved by time and sin, Don Brooks is both ruthless and broken. Tall and slim, with long dark hair and tired brown eyes, he wears his past like an invisible weight on his shoulders. Once a feared strategist in the underground world, age has softened none of his instincts. He is sharp, calculating, and willing to burn everything to protect the one person who still ties him to humanity — his daughter.
His relationship with Gabriella is fractured, but beneath the scars is an unwavering desire to shield her from the world he dragged her into.
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Bianca Diggle — Adrian's Younger Sister
Age: 24
Role: Gabriella's Childhood Friend; The Quiet Power in the Diggle Family
Bianca is everything the mafia world is not — soft pastels, hazel eyes filled with thoughts she never says aloud, and elegance that hides a mind sharper than her brother's knives. Bianca is the quiet storm of the Diggle family — elegant, observant, and dangerously perceptive. With long wavy dark hair and soft hazel eyes, she exudes warmth… until she doesn't. She reads people instantly, dissects lies with surgical precision, and masks her own emotions behind a gentle smile.
Though she wants her brother to choose power over love, her loyalty to Gabriella slowly reawakens the bond they once shared. Bianca becomes a silent backbone in the story, the bridge between family and forgiveness.
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Adele Diggle — Adrian's Mother
Age: 60
Role: The Heart of the Diggle Family
Adele is the warmth in a world of shadows. With short wavy hair, soft hazel eyes, and colorful clothes that defy the darkness around her, she radiates kindness. But kindness in a mafia dynasty is a double-edged sword. Protected from the uglier truths of her family's empire, she trusts too deeply and forgives too easily.
Yet her intuition is legendary. Adele knows when someone is lying, feels tension before it erupts, and negotiates peace where others would draw guns. She becomes the gentle force urging Adrian toward a path he never imagined — love.
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Isabella Anatoli — Russian Mafia Princess
Age: 25
Role: Ally to the Diggles
Beautiful, bubbly, and deceptively charming, Isabella is the kind of woman the world underestimates — at their own risk. With strawberry-blonde curls, baby-blue eyes, and a model-like figure, she is the picture of premium beauty. But beneath her sweetness is a manipulative streak born from surviving the Russian underworld.
Once promised to Adrian through an alliance marriage, she unexpectedly becomes one of Gabriella's strongest allies.
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Harper Wheeler — Adrian's Right Hand
Age: 30
Role: Underboss; Adrian's Best Friend
Harper is the calm to Adrian's storm. Serious, disciplined, and quietly intimidating, he is a man carved from loyalty and resilience. Tattoos, piercings, and sharp green eyes complete the image of a man who has seen more than he speaks about.
Though loyal to Adrian, Harper sees the cracks forming in his friend's obsession with Gabriella — and he will risk everything to keep Adrian alive… and sane.
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ANTAGONISTS
Vittorio Moretti — Rival Mafia Boss
Age: 35
Vittorio Moretti is the kind of danger that smiles before it strikes. Tall, clean, and sharply sculpted, he carries an unnerving charm — the type that makes people lean in even when their instincts tell them to run. His buzz-cut hair, amber eyes, and single lip piercing give him a deceptively modern, youthful look, but beneath that aesthetic is a calculating predator born from old Italian bloodlines.
Vittorio is soft-spoken, almost elegant in his mannerisms. He doesn't yell; he doesn't threaten loudly — he whispers, and entire rooms fall silent. His power comes not from brutality alone, but from the psychological mastery he wields like a blade. He plays politics the same way a chess grandmaster plays the board:
always ten moves ahead, always anticipating the moment someone thinks they can outsmart him.
In the New York underworld, Vittorio is known as both a negotiator and a nightmare. His alliances are short-lived, his betrayals legendary. He is the shadow that lingers behind Adrian Diggle's rise to power — the man determined to fracture the Diggle empire from the inside. And he hides his intentions behind charm so polished it feels like poison dipped in honey.
Vittorio sees Adrian as competition.
He sees Gabriella as opportunity.
And he sees war not as chaos… but as entertainment.
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Lucia Brooks — Gabriella's Estranged Mother
Age: 58
Role: Ghost of Gabriella's Past
Lucia Brooks is a ghost with a heartbeat — a woman who exists more in the shadows of her mistakes than in the world of the living. Short in stature with thin limbs, dark circles under her soft golden eyes, and an almost fragile presence, she is a portrait of a life that unraveled long ago.
Once beautiful, once bright, once hopeful…
Lucia became everything she never imagined she'd be.
A drug addict.
A runaway mother.
A woman unable to hold her daughter, unable to face her husband, unable to stand beneath the weight of her own guilt.
She abandoned Gabriella when she was little — vanished from her life without a goodbye, leaving Gabriella to be raised by Don Curtis Brooks, a man incapable of tenderness. Lucia convinced herself that leaving would protect her daughter from the darkness of the Brooks legacy, but in truth, she left because she was too broken to fight.
Lucia drifts in and out of New York like a forgotten shadow. She knows what her absence did to Gabriella, and the knowledge eats at her like rust. She longs to reconcile, to see her daughter smile again, but every attempt is swallowed by addiction, fear, and self-loathing.
Her presence in the story is tragic, unpredictable, and emotionally volatile — a reminder that some wounds come not from violence, but from absence.
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Daniel Evangelic — Gabriella's Crush
Age: 28
Occupation: Aspiring Actor
Daniel Evangelic is a magnetic blend of charm and ambition — the kind of aspiring actor New York seems to breed by the thousands, but with a spark that makes him stand out in any crowded audition room. Tall, muscular, with a confident stance and a smile so bright it disarms, Daniel knows how to use his good looks and charisma like tools.
His blue-colored hair gives him an artistic, unpredictable flair — a visual declaration that he's not afraid to take risks to stand out in the cutthroat world of entertainment.
Daniel is kind-hearted and soft-spoken, the type who supports Gabriella's dreams without competition or resentment. But beneath his gentleness is a streak of recklessness — a temper that ignites when he feels overlooked or replaced. His jealousy isn't loud, but it simmers beneath the surface, especially when Gabriella disappears without explanation.
He loved Gabriella deeply — in the soft, ordinary, human way that makes life feel stable.
But when she is kidnapped by Adrian, Daniel is thrust into a world he never imagined existed. His fear turns into desperation, his desperation into obsession, and his obsession i
nto bold, dangerous decisions.
Daniel represents the life Gabriella could have had —
peaceful, simple, safe —
before a mafia heir turned her world inside out.