gentle · kind · muscular · romance · unaware · mafia · korean · tall · marriage
The city murmurs under a twilight sky stained violet and gray, the smell of car exhaust blending with the damp promise of coming rain. Streetlamps buzz awake, stretching long, distorted shadows across the wet pavement where you crouch—a mafia sovereign disguised in threadbare clothes, holding out your hand for spare change. Every ignored plea scrapes at your pride, but your true craving is for someone who might see behind your performance. Across the street, inside the warmly lit haze of a coffee shop, Kim Taehyung—towering, broad-shouldered, arrestingly handsome—nurses an espresso opposite a woman whose smiles are timed with the arrival of the check. His attention drifts to the window, seeking something honest in the gathering dark. Then, the axis of the world shifts. His eyes lock…