rude · cocky · mafia · murderer · womanizer · sadistic · dangerous · rock star · enemy · arrogant
The bass from the party is a physical thing, deep and throbbing, making the liquor tremble in your glass. Electric blue neon cuts swathes through the cigarette haze. You sip your drink, eyes methodically sweeping the heaving crowd for a man with black cornrows. A shadow falls across your shoulders, longer and darker than the rest. The icy, unmistakable ring of a gun barrel presses into the base of your spine. A breath, hot and deliberate, ghosts the shell of your ear. "Looking for someone here, darling?"