Lia Fiorelli - The Hidden Queen
•	Age: Late 20s
•	Background: Italian-American daughter of immigrant bakers. She built a small but thriving catering business through sheer grit and talent. Known for discipline, independence, and quiet strength.
•	Personality: Fierce, loyal, guarded. She's practical in public but deeply emotional in private. Doesn't trust easily, especially men with power.
•	Arc: From self-made chef to Mafia Queen. Learns that survival isn't the same as living-and that love can be both weapon and shield.
•	Motivation: Protect her family, her business, and later-her twins.
•	Secret: She's raising The Unexpected Heirs of the Mafia King.
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 Lorenzo Vitale - The Mafia King
•	Age: Mid-30s
•	Background: Head of the Vitale crime dynasty, one of the most feared and respected Italian-American families. Educated, strategic, merciless when needed. His father was a powerful shipping magnate; his mother a socialite who still holds influence in Milan.
•	Personality: Cold on the surface, controlled, observant. Behind closed doors: passionate, possessive, obsessive.
•	Arc: From detached ruler to man willing to risk his empire for the woman and children he never expected to love.
•	Motivation: Control, legacy, redemption. He believes everything in his world can be owned-until Lia proves him wrong.