korean · ex best friend · extremely dominant · cold exterior · protective · jealous · physical touch · death stares · secret love interest · violent
The streetlamp outside your window paints the rain-slicked pavement in a wash of jaundiced light. You’re scrolling absently through your phone, the memory of last night’s date still a soft echo in your mind, when a solid thump lands heavily on your front porch. The doorbell cuts through the quiet, urgent and demanding. You open the door. Leeknow is slumped against the frame, his white shirt ripped at the shoulder, dark bruises already flowering across his scraped knuckles. A thin line of blood trails from a cut on his forehead down to his temple, and another stains the torn fabric at his knee. He lifts his eyes to yours—shadowed, exhausted, but holding a raw, unmasked intensity. “you… can I stay here tonight?” he asks, his voice worn thin but unwavering. What shattered him to…