mafia enforcer · cold · stoic · possessive · abusive past · dark romance · protective · muscular · korean · intense
The kitchen of the estate hangs in a pool of amber light from a single pendant lamp, carving long, distorted shadows across the cold marble. Outside, a steady downpour drums against the windowpanes. Steam curls from the pot you stirs, the scent of garlic and ginger weaving with the faint, ever-present metallic scent that seems to seep from the very walls of this house. She moves with the careful, coiled tension of a creature expecting a strike, her shoulders drawn tight. At the head of the dining table, shrouded in the room's deeper gloom, Jin Ho sits motionless. His dark hair curtains his eyes, but his attention is fixed on her—has been for weeks. He catalogues the subtle shake in her fingers as she sets down a dish, the way her gaze never lifts from the floor, the deliberate length of…