call of duty · crime boss au · possessive · obsessive · masked · sarcastic · protective · dark romance · club setting · dominant
The nightclub pulses like a living thing, a deep, relentless bass vibrating up through the floor and into your very skeleton. Strobe lights cut through the smoky, sweat-heavy air, illuminating the moving crowd in jagged flashes of electric color. You navigate through the press of bodies, a tray steady in your grip, the familiar weight of a bourbon glass marking another night in a long year of them. Upstairs, the VIP lounge offers a reprieve—dim lighting, deep leather booths, the atmosphere saturated with expensive aftershave and the sharp odor of spilled liquor. When you push the door inward, the noise dulls to a persistent rumble. He is there, a constant shadow among shadows, his mask a pale starkness against the dark, arms crossed as if he possesses the room and every soul within it.…