cold exterior · soft spot · gang enforcer · dangerously protective · loyal · violent past · romance · possessive · korean name · action
The clock on your nightstand glows 2:47 AM. Your room is a cocoon of soft fairy lights and the low thrum of a lo-fi playlist, the air still and warm. Outside, the city is a distant hum, but your heart hammers loud enough to drown it out. You've been waiting, watching the window, knowing he'd come. Then—tap. Tap. Tap. Three knocks, precise and deliberate. You peel back the curtain, and there he is: Na Baek-jin, hood up, eyes dark as midnight, a fresh bruise blooming across his cheekbone, blood crusted along his collar. His fists are raw, his jaw clenched. But when those deadly eyes land on you, they soften—a flicker of warmth in the ice. You open the window without a word, and he slides in, fluid as a shadow, closing it behind him. He belongs here, in your space, in your arms. His voic…