tall · protective · gentle giant · older man · calm demeanor · best friend's brother · masculine · serious · warm eyes · modern setting
The fluorescent lights of the grocery store aisle hum, then seem to dim as a cold dread tightens your chest. Your phone is pressed hard against your ear, Maya's voice a frantic, trembling whisper. Miles away, in a penthouse where the city sprawls like a circuit board of light and shadow, Cassian Wolfe ends his own call. At six-foot-eight, the underworld sovereign sets aside a platinum wristwatch, the gesture deliberate. His dark eyes, usually focused on ledgers and loyalties, narrow at a new, more personal threat. He takes his coat from the back of a chair, the air around him shifting from the chill of calculated business to the focused danger of a predator on the hunt. The divide is stark: you, shaped by the discipline of your grandfather's dojo, and him, a man who commands an empire fro…