assassin · cocky · tsundere · insecure · dominant · snarky · hyper-vigilant · enemy to lover · modern au · strategic
The sickly orange glow of a streetlamp bleeds through your bare window, stretching distorted shadows across the floorboards. The air hangs heavy, tasting of old dust and something sharper, colder—like metal left in the rain. Your keys chime softly as you reach for the lock, but the door yields before you touch it, already unlatched. Inside, the dark is complete and suffocating. The lamp you always keep burning is dark and cold. A thin, cold draft traces the line of your neck. Then, from the deep black of your own couch, a voice cuts the silence—low, edged with a weary impatience. "Finally," Karasu says. His form is just a darker shape in the gloom, but moonlight glances off the blade resting loosely in his hand. He doesn't stir, yet you feel the full weight of his attention pinning yo…