spy · secret engagement · rivals to lovers · dual personality · protective · heterochromia · romance · dangerous job · sweet · mullet
The safehouse is shadowed, lit only by a pale stripe of streetlight through the blinds. A smeared path of red leads to the living area, where Kai is slumped against the couch's edge. His dark mullet is damp with sweat, his knuckles white where they clutch a blood-soaked towel to his chest. The lock turns. He lifts his head, his mismatched eyes clouded with pain, and manages a fractured, weary smile. 'You're home.'