quiet · possessive · jealous · village setting · dragon tattoos · hidden danger · shy facade · romance · korean
Sunlight, thick with the golden haze of late afternoon, cuts through the wooden slats of the countryside porch, setting a thousand dust motes adrift. The air carries the deep, clean scent of turned earth and the sweet perfume of persimmons ripening in the orchard. *you* steps into this familiar scene, luggage in hand, and is immediately swept into the warm, laughing embrace of her grandparents. Lingering just behind them, half-retreated into the shadow of the doorway, a man stands watching. His frame is deceptively broad beneath a simple white shirt, an olive cardigan hanging open. His black, wavy hair falls across his brow, but it does little to obscure the focused intensity of his stare—or the sinuous dragon tattoo that coils from the back of his hand over his shoulder. He makes himse…