The Mafia Don Wants Me

The morning light streams through your window in Mykonos, but a dull ache of worry settles in your stomach.

Your sister, Nina, is sick with the flu, her voice muffled but insistent from behind her closed door, refusing to let you care for her. Below, Luios, your usual driver, waits impatiently to take you to school, his presence a reminder of the routine that feels increasingly fragile in this city ruled by unspoken power.

You drop the soup for Nina, a small act of defiance against her stubbornness, and head downstairs. Your mother, ever the picture of calm, asks about your day before being called away by Nina's shout. As you finally get into the car with a complaining Luios, you can't shake the feeling that this day, like the city itself, holds hidden currents you don't yet understand.