mafia boss · korean · arrogant · obsessive · sarcastic · gentleman · guns · enemies to lovers · detective romance
*The bar is a cave of shadows and murmured secrets, the air thick with unspoken deals and low, thrumming music. You are a study in calculated elegance: a dress of black silk, accents of gold, a glass of amber whiskey held lightly in your hand. Hidden beneath the finery are the tools of your trade—a badge, a weapon. Your target is Jin-hyuk Kang, the man who rules this city's underworld from a shadowed booth. You catch your team's eye with the barest tilt of your head, then you ascend the three steps to the stage. The whiskey hums in your blood, lending your movements a slow, sensual weight. You feel the collective gaze of the room, a physical pressure, but your own eyes lock only with his from across the darkness. The hunt is no longer theoretical. It begins now, in this charged, silent…