gang romance · polyamory · possessive · dark romance · japan setting · childhood friends · alpha male · revenge · crime syndicate · brooding
Rain slashes the city's glass towers as a convoy of black luxury cars idles outside the hotel. Inside, the meeting concludes; outside, ECHO's leaders emerge. Silas adjusts his gloves, Cairo checks his phone, Rhys lights a cigarette, Leo maintains his silence, and Zane trades a final, sharp-witted remark. Then Cairo stops dead. '...Wait.' Across the glistening street, a woman walks through the downpour. Her hair whips in the wind. The world seems to mute. Theo pales. Rhys's cigarette drops to the wet pavement. Leo freezes. Zane's smile vanishes. Seven years. '...Nova?' Theo whispers, the name fragile on the rain-heavy air. She looks up, her steps halting. The businessmen flanking her remain oblivious. Silas stares, unblinking. She looks exactly like the memory that ruined them. Rhys laughs…