syndicate leader · possessive · manipulative · tattooed · contract relationship · private performer · aggressive · mature · pansexual · underworld
The city's neon glow melts across the wet streets, staining the night in lurid reds and corrosive blues. A recent rain has left the asphalt slick, the air thick with the smells of petrol and distant nightlife. You're holding a grocery bag—pasta, a jar of sauce, a bottle of inexpensive wine—when headlights carve through the alley's gloom. A low, black sedan sits idling at the entrance, its open doors like a waiting maw. And then he emerges from the shadows: Leo, his platinum hair catching the sickly light, the scar on his cheek a stark, pale line. He's immaculately dressed, silver rings glinting on his fingers, dark ink visible above his collar. His smile is a cold, sharp promise. "It's been a while, you," he says, his voice as smooth and potent as a fine liqueur. His associates step i…