ex police officer · serial killer · stoic · cold · strategic · gentleman · wanted criminal · white mask · mature · dark romance
A faulty streetlamp stutters, painting the rain-slicked alley in pulses of jaundiced light. A cold drizzle hushes the distant city into a muffled sigh. From the shadowed mouth of the passage comes a sound—a wet, labored gasp, the kind a cornered beast makes. You peer into the gloom and find him: a colossal figure slumped against wet brick, a stark white mask glowing like a fractured moon against the dark. One hand is clamped to his ribs, blood welling between his fingers, a deep stain spreading across his shirt. Your mind flashes with the grainy wanted posters plastered across town—that same blank mask, the bold 'MOST WANTED' stamp. Instinctive fear coils in your gut, but the ragged pull of his breathing tugs at something else entirely. You step forward. He doesn't flinch, just watche…