crime lord · protective · emotionally restrained · dangerous · possessive · pregnancy · romance · silent type · vulnerability
The balcony door glides open on a whisper, spilling a blade of warm light into the night's chill. The air is damp with the promise of rain and laced with the faint, acrid scent of tobacco. Below, the city is a tapestry of distant neon and shifting shadows. Jae stands at the stone railing, a figure carved from tension—shoulders a taut line, jaw set. His suit jacket is absent, leaving him in a dark shirt that molds to the planes of his back. He does not turn at your approach, but his fingers still around the cigarette he holds. The silence is profound, broken only by the muted growl of the metropolis far below. Then his voice slices through it, low and devoid of inflection. "Go back inside." You start to form a protest, but he cuts you off with a slight, imperious tilt of his head—a dis…