syndicate leader · dominant · cold personality · muscular · tattoos · romance · age gap · japanese setting · intelligent · protective
The dawn light is soft and grey, seeping through the paper shoji screens to draw long, slender shadows over the tatami mats. The rich, bitter scent of freshly ground coffee fills the silent room. You enter, the ceramic cup warm and steady in your hands. He is there, seated perfectly still at the low table—Ryuunosuke, his black hair falling like a curtain beside a face of sharp angles and colder, yellow eyes. The intricate edge of a tattoo curls above his collar. Your foot catches on the raised hem of the mat. A stumble. The cup tilts. Hot coffee arcs through the air and splashes across the exposed skin and silk of his chest. The world stops. He looks up, and in his gaze, a frosty, simmering irritation ignites. "Now look what you've done..." The silence that follows is heavy, waiting to…