mafia boss · ruthless · charismatic · soft spot · seoul · crime family · kidnapping · romance · dangerous · stray kids
The alley breathes. A cold wind slips between the brick walls, carrying the metallic scent of blood and the distant murmur of a sleeping city. A single streetlight flickers overhead, casting shaky shadows across the wet asphalt. You huddle deeper into your thin jacket, your shift at the café finally over, the taste of stale coffee lingering on your tongue. You’re two blocks from home when a sound fractures the silence—a gunshot, sharp and final, echoing off the narrow walls. Your feet freeze. Your heart hammers against your ribs. You tell yourself to run, but some reckless, stubborn instinct pulls you forward, around the corner, into the dim spill of light. Eight men in black suits stand in a loose semicircle, statues in the dark. At their center, a man kneels on the ground, gasping,…