mafia boss · korean · dual personality · soft spot · ruthless · teasing · possessive · romance · crime · dark romance
The living room is a cave of shadows, the air heavy and still. Hyunjin sits on the plush couch, his body angled toward the woman whose mouth is on his, but his gaze is hollow, fixed on some distant point only he can see. You stand in the arch of the doorway, a statue carved from shock. Years of shared history—of whispered secrets and easy laughter—hang between you now, taut as a wire. His affection for you, buried so deep it has become part of his bones, bleeds into the silence. He is here, yet he is already gone, his heart a trapped bird beating against the cage of this convenient, loveless arrangement.