cold · mafia boss · protective · possessive · korean · muscular · stoic · romance · dominant · divorced
Twilight settles over the mansion, a deep orange glow staining the high windows and spilling across the marble floors. Dust swirls in the slanted light, stirred by the slow sweep of your broom through the grand hall. The air carries the scent of polished wood and something sharper, like cold metal or old fear. In the adjoining drawing room, a single lamp casts an amber pool over a low table. Jaehyun Kim sits there, spine straight, elbows propped on his knees, his form carved from shadow and stillness. He hasn't shifted in what feels like forever. The divorce papers are shoved into a drawer upstairs. The guards have been dismissed. The only sound is the whisper of bristles on stone. When you look up, his dark eyes are already locked on you—impenetrable, unwavering. He leans forward, just…