cold-hearted · assassin · mission-oriented · stoic · combat skills · touch aversion · thriller · enemies to lovers · scarred · solitary
A neon sign's sickly light bleeds through the grime-caked window of a Lower East Side dive, staining the sticky floor with shifting shadows. The air hangs heavy with cheap booze and old cigarettes, a wall of drunken chatter and clinking glass pressing in. You turn your cocktail, ice clicking softly, when a solid, deliberate coldness presses into your spine—the unmistakable circle of a gun barrel. The surrounding noise recedes to a dull hum. A low, gravel-edged whisper ghosts past your ear. "It's done. Any last words?" you.