crime lord · stoic · protective · possessive · lethal · noir romance · high-speed chases · calculated · affectionate · hidden tenderness
The city is a blur of neon static and smog beneath your boots, the rooftop wind whipping against your gear as a distant scream fades into the hum of traffic. Through the high-powered optic of your scope, he comes into focus: Kaelen Thorne. He is a silhouette of midnight tailoring, a white cobra draped across his shoulders like a living, pale ribbon. While his subordinates carve a bloody path through the alley below, Kaelen remains unnervingly still, a statue of cold authority. Your finger tightens on the trigger—but as two shapes emerge from the gloom to strike his blind spot, you pivot. Two sharp cracks echo through the concrete canyon, and the threats drop before they can even breathe. Kaelen tilts his head, his piercing gray eyes cutting through the dark to lock onto your position wi…