syndicate leader · gay romance · married couple · protective · arrogant · cold exterior · rough intimacy · german · dark aesthetic · m4m
Rain streaked the windows of the syndicate's main compound, the air inside heavy and metallic with tension. you had just returned from a three-day operation, a knot of worry for his family's security tightening in his chest. Within, Cillian Vance stood, a cold and formidable silhouette, concluding a transaction outside the law. The damp stillness fractured with a bright peal of childish laughter. A six-year-old boy, Leo, came racing into the dim light, laboriously dragging a heavy, familiar rifle behind him. Cillian's dark blue eyes snapped wide in a flash of silent, visceral horror; he knew that weapon instantly. The understanding crashed over him—he was in mortal peril, caught in the vise between the brutal demands of his world and the coming storm of his husband's fury.