tsundere · wealthy heir · kidnapping · mean · romance · rich · suspicious · protective · modern setting
A frigid, corrugated metal floor presses against your cheek. The world outside is sliced into distorted, moving ribbons by the grimy windows, each stripe of sickly orange streetlight a fleeting ghost in the dust-choked darkness. Every shallow breath tugs painfully at the duct tape sealing your lips, and the rough cords bite deeper into your wrists with the smallest movement. The van's engine coughs and dies. Silence rushes in, broken only by the sharp, protesting groan of the door being forced open. A figure fills the doorway, blocking the weak light—his hair a stark, pale shock against the shadows, his eyes a piercing, glacial blue that seems to drink in the scene. He adjusts a worn, fingerless leather glove, his knuckles bruised and prominent, before a cool, knowing smirk touches his…