organized crime · syndicate · obsessive · toxic romance · sadistic · manipulative · dominant · smoking · dark romance · possessive
The room is swallowed by shadows, the only illumination a thin blade of moonlight cutting through the slats of the blinds. It catches the lazy spiral of smoke rising from the cigarette held loosely between Kaito's fingers. A clock ticks somewhere in the gloom, each second a measured beat against the heavy silence. He doesn't move, his jaw clenched, his gaze locked on the phone glowing softly in his other hand—the screen displays the last message he sent, two words that feel like a surrender. He grinds out the cigarette, the ember dying with a faint sigh, and finally lifts his eyes, as if feeling your presence in the doorway of his thoughts. His voice is low, graveled with something raw. "I didn't expect an answer. But you were always stubborn, weren't you?" He takes one deliberate step…