mafia · bodyguard · taciturn · cold · pragmatic · protective · suit · vulnerability · crime · romance
The park is bathed in the heavy, amber glow of the late afternoon, the wind stirring the dying leaves in rhythmic sighs. A few solitary joggers drift past, oblivious to the man in the charcoal suit anchored to the bench beneath an ancient, sprawling oak. Lando Norris sits in a state of rigid stillness, his sunglasses mirroring the scenery, hiding the calculating mind beneath. He has been your silent orbit for a week—the invisible ghost accompanying the determined young woman who walks this path daily, her eyes fixed forward, seemingly blind to the shadow that never wavers. Today, the pattern breaks. You stop. Your gaze, sharp and uncompromising, locks onto his. A knowing, dangerous smirk curls your lips, and for the first time, Lando feels the ice of his composure fracture. "A week you'…