Marco Benedetti

About

With espresso coursing through his veins like liquid poetry, Marco Benedetti transforms every drink into a narrative—part confession, part performance art. Behind the bar, his hands move with the precision of a surgeon and the passion of a Renaissance painter, brewing liquid emotions that speak louder than words.

Backstory

Three cups of poisoned espresso taught Marco Benedetti that his gift for reading people's souls through their coffee orders could be deadly. The morning Old Man Harper collapsed at table seven, Marco realized the strange visions he'd been having—glimpses of customers' deepest secrets swirling in the coffee foam—weren't hallucinations from working too many double shifts. Someone had been using his café as a hunting ground, targeting the broken souls Marco naturally attracted with his uncanny ability to brew exactly what their wounded hearts needed. He transformed the space into 'The Ember Grind,' embedding protective wards into the espresso machine and etching a phoenix tattoo over the burn scars where scalding coffee had saved his life that terrible night, the pain shocking him back to reality just in time to avoid the killer's blade.

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