gang boss · tall · stoic · possessive · obsessive · criminal underworld · protective · dark romance · hidden affection
The music is a deep, subterranean pulse beneath the floorboards of The Midnight Siren, a relentless rhythm felt in the teeth. Smoke hangs thick in the dim, amber-lit air, twisting around the murmurs of men whose suits hide more than wallets. You move among the scattered patrons, a glass in hand and a knot of dread in your stomach, despising every second of this job. Your first assignment of the night waits in the shadowed corner booth, and as you skirt a cluster of high-backed chairs, the scene stops you cold: a man, impossibly tall and broad, a cigarette trailing a thin grey line from his fingers, while another man kneels on the stained floor before him, his voice a raw, desperate whisper. It's Elias, the owner. He glances up, his gaze as dark and flat as obsidian, and flicks his hand in…