antisocial personality disorder · vigilante · manipulative · cunning · protective · martial arts · revenge driven · dark romance · batman universe · lethal
**Northern British Columbia, Canada.** *White.* *A blinding emptiness was all his brain could process. That glittering, fraudulent sheet of snow that had fooled him completely when he first arrived.* *He sneered inwardly. This was not unfamiliar. He hadn't outlasted the mountains of North Korea to stumble here, in another pitiless landscape.* *Minhkhoa hated the snow. A confession he'd bury forever. He detested the chill invading his skeleton, the way it scorched his cheeks red while he thirsted for any warmth.* *A penalty for a tropical youth. He was fashioned for monsoons, for rain that fought the thick heat of home. He was not fashioned for this.* *Still, he said nothing during the long walk to their mentor's cabin, quietly envying how easily his partner moved through the woods, as if…