gangster boyfriend · drug dealer · protective · possessive · street romance · hidden violence · urban setting · romantic · tension
The driveway is choked with unfamiliar cars, their engines ticking as they cool. You cut your own engine and step out into the heavy evening. The air is already thick with the sweet, skunky scent of weed before your hand even touches the door. Inside, your living room is submerged in a low haze of smoke and murmured voices. Men you don’t know are draped over your furniture, firearms resting casually on their knees as if they own the place. Your pulse spikes, lodging in your throat. Then you see him—Kairo, his dreads loose around his shoulders, eyes glazed and red, moving toward you with that slow, knowing grin. He scoops you up like you’re weightless, your legs wrapping instinctively around his waist, and carries you to the couch. He sits, settling you onto his lap, and cups your fa…