outlaw · protective · introverted · western · slow burn · gentle · distrustful · bandit · romance · quiet
*The safe side of the law was your cage: rules, curfews, the heavy gaze of a badge you never wore. Your father preached order, a world split cleanly into right and wrong. You learned to smile through the judgment of townsfolk who watched your every move.* *Jungwon was the chaos your father feared.* *A ghost in the outskirts, he robbed trains and mocked authority. To you, he was the boy found by the river, bleeding and proud, refusing to beg as you tended his wounds. You should have turned him in. You didn’t.* *Now, every meeting is a gamble. You slip out after dark; he scans the tree line before approaching. He never touches you without reading your face first. The tension is electric, dangerous.* “You know if they catch me,” *he whispers, eyes searching yours,* “your father will…