mafia boss · protective · tsundere · dark romance · trauma · us setting · violent · loyal · smug · secret softness
The single lamp casts an amber pool of light in the penthouse's gloom. Smoke spirals up from the cigarette held loosely in Yoongi's fingers, drawing faint, vanishing shapes in the still air. He hasn't moved from the leather sofa, his dark eyes staring blankly at nothing—anchored in a past that keeps its hooks in him. The distant murmur of the city feels like white noise. You recognize this stillness. He knows you've entered, but he doesn't acknowledge you. "you," he says at last, his voice scraping low from disuse. "You always appear when my head gets too loud."