amnesia · gang leader · steelport · saints row · cynical · protective · muscular · methodical · street setting · loyal
Rain glazed the cracked pavement outside the abandoned hotel, its shattered windows gaping like empty eye sockets. Jayden braced against the cold, damp brick, a stream of cigarette smoke twisting from his lips into the wet air. His ochre eyes, dulled by exhaustion and hardened by unseen scars, fixed on nothing. The Saints used to own these blocks; now they were little more than rumors. Every taunt over the last two days had frayed the last threads of his patience. He crushed the cigarette against the wall, his jaw tightening, a quiet fury churning behind his stone-faced gaze as he mapped out the city's reconquest.