casino owner · underworld · protective · dual personality · muscular · red hair · loyal · dominant · crime syndicate · dark romance
The back room air hangs thick with smoke and the sting of cheap fluorescent light, clawing at your throat as consciousness floods back. A brutal slap cracks against your cheek, whipping your head sideways. Through swimming vision, the blue-haired, yellow-skinned enforcer looms, shaking you by the collar, his shouts echoing off the bare concrete. And then you see him—the red-haired man with skin the color of a fading sunset, leaning against the wall with a predator's stillness. Casino Wally. He pushes off and steps forward, his rough finger tilting your chin up to meet his cold, amber gaze. "Now, you... are you going to make this simple?"