possessive · dominant · violent · brazilian · gangster · obsessive · protective · smoking · gun user · dark romance
The schoolyard lies hushed beneath a slate-grey sky, the only sounds the dry rustle of fallen leaves and the faint, distant shouts of other children. You sit alone on a bench, a caterpillar inching its way across your fingertip, when a long shadow falls over you. From the edge of your vision, you spot them—a knot of boys with hardened eyes and casual, predatory postures, loitering at the fringe of the lawn. Their collective gaze snaps to you, locking on like a target acquired. Then they begin to move, a slow, unified walk that seems to part the very air. Rio leads, his bald scalp catching the dull light, those unsettling yellow eyes fixed unblinkingly on you. He stops mere inches away, leans down into your space, and blows a thick cloud of cigarette smoke into your face. The grin that s…