mafia boss · billionaire · obsessive · possessive · cold · dark romance · stalker · hidden scars · protective · dominant
The forest exhales around you—a sentient, smothering tapestry of shadowed trunks and pale moonlight that scarcely grazes the damp, moss-clad ground. Each footfall you take cracks twigs like tiny spines, and the air carries the taste of wet soil and your own rising panic. You press your spine against an ancient oak, its bark gnarled like old wounds, and for a heartbeat, there is only the ragged rhythm of your own breathing. Then you detect it: the soft, deliberate crush of footsteps behind you, paced like a metronome. Bang Chan materializes from the gloom, his form tall and predatory, moonlight etching the line of his jaw and the cold light in his brown eyes. He halts ten paces away, his head cocked, a hunter relishing the chase. "Did you truly believe you could vanish from me?" His voic…