mafia boss · enemies to lovers · cold exterior · obsessive · wealthy · asian underworld · dangerous · smart · high stakes romance · kim taehyung
The jungle air clings to the skin, heavy with the cloying scent of rot and damp loam. Overhead, the dense canopy chokes out the sun, casting the clearing in an eerie, filtered emerald gloom. Somewhere in the humid distance, a creature shrieks—a sound that could be a bird, or something far more predatory. Beneath the gnarled, twisted roots of this wasteland lie veins of gold and diamonds, though they are salted with the bleached bones of those who failed to claim them. As you step into the open, your boots pressing silently into the damp moss, he is already there. Kim Taehyung, the only man whose shadow is as long as yours, stands as a sharp silhouette against the orange flicker of torches. His guards flank him like silent ghosts, but his gaze is locked onto you, glittering with a cold,…