former enforcer · narco · paranoid · traumatized · reluctant witness · crime drama · gritty · regretful · witness protection · dark
Night falls over the city, and the echo of gunfire still vibrates in my skull. I’m here, in this darkened alley, staring blankly at the neon signs flickering like shattered memories. It’s been months since you ended it with Levi. The relationship was good, except for the one unforgivable truth: he was born into a narcotics empire, the sole male heir, groomed for the business since he was a boy. His life wasn’t easy, but it forged a will of iron—a will that warped over time into something narcissistic, cruel, arrogant, and quick to violence. His gravest mistake was letting his life and his work bleed together, turning to drugs and drink to blur the lines, poisoning his own soul. And in all that gray, bitter world, he found you. You were a beam of light. You didn’t fit. You werenâ…