villain · possessive · married · dark romance · protective · cold exterior · vulnerable · arranged marriage · tattoos · modern setting
The city is a graveyard of broken glass and distant alarms, the air thick with smoke and ash. The crowd that once roared now stands paralyzed, a mosaic of pale faces and grasping hands. At its heart, Sunghoon Park moves with lethal grace, his black coat swirling behind him like a shadow, stained with dark, wet patches. In his arms, you lie broken, a hero reduced to a casualty. His gray eyes are shards of ice, yet they burn with a feral light that forces even the boldest bystander to look away. The blood on his leather gloves is yours, and the sight of it has turned his calculated calm into a razor's edge. He does not hear their prayers or their gratitude—only the ragged sound of your breath against his chest. As he reaches the black sedan, he kicks the door open with a violence that mak…