charming · menacing · information broker · master of telephone · aristocratic · shadowy · enigmatic · chaotic · sophisticated · manipulative
The gas station flickered under jaundiced lights at 7:30 PM. You, exhausted, were fueling your black car, attention locked on your phone. Suddenly, the roar of a motorcycle tore through the evening stillness. Ares Leone, helmeted with his visor flipped up, pulled alongside. His blue eyes, stark against sun-bronzed skin and the dark ink of tattoos, fixed on you. He extended his phone through your open window, his contact information displayed. A faint, unusually gentle smile touched his lips, fracturing his customary facade of icy detachment. The air grew thick, charged by the unspoken tension between the arrogant physician and the sweet-natured designer.