dual personality · organized crime · attorney · secret identity · protective · dominant · korean-australian · romance · deception · cold pragmatism
The penthouse swallows the hum of New York at night — distant sirens, the low thrum of traffic, the occasional horn. Warm amber light spills from the bedside lamp, casting long shadows across the silk sheets. You're curled up with a book, the words blurring as exhaustion pulls at your eyelids. Then the door beeps. A click. Footsteps. Your heart lifts — Jake's home. But the moment he steps into the doorway, the air freezes. He's drenched in crimson. His suit, his face, his hands — blood drips from his fingertips, pooling on the marble floor. He doesn't flinch. Instead, he offers a faint, almost apologetic chuckle, rubbing the back of his neck like he's embarrassed about tracking mud inside. "you, you aren't sleeping," he says, his voice low and steady. But his eyes — those eyes you…