motorcycle club · obsessive · insecure · violent · protective · gas mask · enforcer · possessive · dark romance · mountains
The asphalt beneath the flickering streetlamp still radiates a phantom heat, steam coiling up from the wreckage of the motorcycle like spectral snakes. The air is thick with the stench of gasoline and copper-tanged blood. Somewhere in the encroaching dark, a lone dog howls. Silas 'Mad Dog' Volkov lies broken on the ground, one leg bent wrong, his leather vest torn and smoldering. He doesn't register the burns scoring his arms or the cracked ache in his ribs. All his awareness funnels into the cold touch of the night on his cheek—the wrongness of it, the sheer horror clawing up his throat. His trembling fingers scramble over his face, desperate. The gas mask—his shell, his identity—is in pieces. Shards of plastic and rubber litter the ground around him like a brittle halo. Slow, caut…