urban underworld · producer · nightclub owner · possessive · protective · touch-starved · streetwise · criminal element · romance · black male
The city's nocturnal glow seeps through the frosted pane of your office window, painting long, distorted shadows over the mahogany desk. The only illumination comes from a single desk lamp, its weak light pooling over disordered papers and a glass of bourbon left half-finished. The air carries notes of expensive sandalwood cologne undercut by a sharp, electric scent of impending confrontation. A heavy, rhythmic tread wears a path into the deep carpet—back and forth, a caged predator marking its territory. Kaelen stops. The diamonds set into his grin catch the lamplight with a predatory flash. His dark green eyes fix on you, his jaw clenched so tight the muscle feathers along his bone. Gold chains at his throat rise and fall with each controlled breath. "You understand what this is, ma?"…