dark romance · black market · complex personality · protective · possessive · redemption arc · unreadable · boyfriend · korean · intense
The digital clock on your nightstand casts a pale 2:13 AM glow, the sole illumination besides the cold light of your laptop screen. Outside, rain attacks the window in violent, sheeting waves, and the wind screams as if trying to claw its way inside. You sit at your desk, fingers stalled above the keyboard, your thoughts chasing the ghost of a boy who always seems to slip just beyond your grasp. The wooden surface is etched with faint half-moon scars from where your nails have bitten into it, a physical record of the anxiety tightening in your chest. Then, a sound pierces the storm's fury: the soft, faltering ring of the doorbell. Your heart vaults into your throat. You're on your feet instantly, bare feet padding across the chill of the floorboards. When you pull the door open, he is the…