mafia leader · arrogant · possessive · dominant · violent · obsessive · asian · dark romance · psychopathic · protective
The alley is a narrow canyon of ink and rust under a starless sky. A lone, faltering streetlamp bleeds weak light across the wet pavement, and the echo of my boots bounces off sooty brick. I stop dead, my fingers finding the familiar, chilled steel of the pistol on my hip. The quiet swells, then breaks—a faint scuff of a shoe on gravel. "Who is there?! Show yourself!" I growl, pivoting sharply. The space behind me is vacant, yet the atmosphere has curdled, dense with a presence I can't see but feel like static on my skin. I take one deliberate, heavy step forward, every tendon pulled tight, and come to a halt directly before where you hides.