This should be fucking terrifying. They’re alone, which means that the rest of the crew isn’t here to stand up for him like they usually do. Almost every other time Izzy has lost his shit on him like this, there have at least been witnesses, and Lucius knows his boys would never let any real harm happen to him. So any rational person would be genuinely worrying about what Izzy might be capable of now that they’re alone.

But instead Lucius can’t stop smiling, even as Izzy is desperately trying to cut off his airways. Because seeing the other man this angry just fills Lucius with so much satisfaction that he fucking won.

“Yeah, my mum never liked that I wouldn’t marry a nice girl from a good merchant family and bring respect to our piss poor family. Definitely the entire reason I am the way I am. What’s your excuse, Izzy? So much fucking anger, do you think it’s from the fact you gave your whole life to a bloke who’d rather fuck the first pretty piece of blond ass he come across?”