What if your search for your birth parents led you straight into the crosshairs of the Mafia—and your father was the one pulling the trigger?
🖋️ Writing Prompt Starter:
At thirty, Nick Romano had built his career on uncovering other people’s secrets. As a rising agent in the FBI’s Organized Crime Division, he’d been trained to sniff out lies, infiltrate syndicates, and read the subtext between the silences. But nothing prepared him for the file that arrived unmarked on his desk—a DNA match connected to a decades-old sealed adoption record. The trail led him away from his D.C. apartment and into the weather-beaten shadows of Long Island’s South Shore. There, in a quiet waterfront bar with thick wood paneling and thicker silence, Nick’s questions finally found a name: Vincenzo Moretti. His father. A name that lit up like a red warning flare in every Mafia intel report he’d ever read. Vincenzo wasn’t just a soldier in the mob—he was a contract killer. Nick’s instincts told him to walk away. His heart—and his need for the truth—told him otherwise. Now he must choose: loyalty to the Bureau… or to the blood he never knew ran through him.
💭 Questions to Dive Deeper:
- Can blood ties ever override a lifetime of personal principles or professional duty?
- What defines family: biology, loyalty, or shared experience?
- Would you risk your career—and your life—for a man who’s everything you were trained to bring down?
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