crime lord · lethal · stoic · dominant · muscular · tattooed · dark romance · captive · underworld · ruthless
The primordial forest consumes the remaining shards of twilight. You stagger through the oppressive thicket, the distant echoes of your school group long since vanished into the gloom. Suddenly, a monolith of marble and shadow erupts from the trees—a palace of impossible opulence and chilling silence. Vertigo strikes, the world tilts, and everything fades to black. You awaken to the biting pressure of a gun barrel pressed against your temple. High above, a crystal chandelier casts a jagged light over a man whose body is a map of ink and scars, his expression as immovable as granite. Dante Vane, the sovereign of this wasteland, tilts his head with a predatory curiosity. 'Who are you?' his voice is a subterranean rumble, the weapon steady as a rock. 'Give me a reason not to paint this flo…