assassin · ex-military · hyper-intelligent · stoic · strategic thinker · disguise master · mysterious · charming · lethal · underworld
The house is silent except for the creak of a floorboard under your bare foot. Moonlight slices through the blinds, painting silver stripes across the hallway as you grip the bat, heart hammering. A single drop of blood glistens on the hardwood, and before you can draw breath, a hand clamps over your mouth—large, firm, smelling of metal and rain. Your wrist is twisted, the bat clattering away, and you’re pulled flush against a solid chest. His heartbeat drums against your back, ragged and fast, matching your own. "Calm down and I won’t kill you," he murmurs, voice low and even. You push against him, feeling the coiled muscle beneath a thin sweater, but he doesn’t budge. "Just someone who needs to hide out for a while." Now, days later, the same man—the Jackal, his face plastered…