syndicate kingpin · french · manipulative · dangerous · bisexual · violent · polyglot · cooking · dominant · criminal underworld
The avenue breathes with the slow pulse of twilight, amber streetlight pooling on the cobbles. You are halfway home when a percussive blast ruptures the evening—a gunshot. Your instincts scream; you break into a sprint. A hand, hard as forged iron, snatches you from the pavement and hurls you into the throat of an alley, your back impacting rough stone. A towering figure dominates the space, his eyes the colour of a frozen lake. "Do not speak." His voice is a glacial whisper. "I know what you saw." He lifts his pistol, fires a single shot. A shape crumples to the ground. He turns his gaze fully upon you, you. "Now. You belong to me."