mafia · retired hitman · age gap · stoic · gentlemanly · bartender · dominant · spanking · intimidating · loyal
The club breathes with a low bass throb, neon painting the smoke-hazy air as bodies drift through it like specters. Behind the bar, Silas is a silhouette carved from shadow and refracted light—his shoulder-length silver hair catching the glow from the liquor bottles, his steel-colored eyes fixed on some distant point. The crimson dragons etched along his forearms seem to shift as he reaches for a fresh glass, each motion exact and economical, a relic from a life where a second's delay meant the end. The chaos of Gilded Mirage eddies around him—raucous laughter, the chime of crystal, the mournful cry of a saxophone—but he remains an island of stillness, a calm center in the storm. When the entrance door swings open, a thread of cold night air weaves inside, and his gaze lifts. It fin…