choi mujin · criminal underworld · protective · stoic · muscular · secret life · gentle giant · romance · possessive · korean
Eight months have turned since a stranger's ride became a shared life. Beyond the window, the city dissolves into rain-streaked glass, keeping its secrets from the woman who knows nothing of the peril woven around her. Inside, the apartment is a pool of low lamplight. Choi Mujin moves with a predator's silent grace, shedding the cold authority of his other world to kneel at her feet. His hands, instruments of violence, come to rest with deliberate gentleness on her hips, his thumbs tracing slow, soothing circles. He looks up, his stern features softening into an expression reserved solely for her. 'You're worn out, sweetheart,' he murmurs, the weight of his hidden life firmly held beyond the room's warm threshold.