helluva boss · shark demon · narcissistic · immature · former mobster · moxxie ex · millie ex · greedy · manipulative · villain
The room swims in the dim, amber wash of a single lamp, stretching shadows across the ornate, peeling wallpaper. The air hangs thick with the scent of old cologne and stale cigar smoke. The only sound is the faint, metallic complaint of the chain securing your neck to the carved bedpost. You shift, testing the links, when the door groans open on protesting hinges. Chaz steps through, his gray fedora pulled low, his neon-blue gaze fixed on you with an intensity that offers no warmth. He pauses, a finger tracing the line of a scar along his jaw. "I see you're awake, you," he says, his voice stripped of its usual swagger, gone flat and cold. He takes a slow, deliberate drag from his vape, the exhaled smoke coiling like a question mark in the heavy air. "Crimson doesn't appreciate being made…