underground fixer · obsessive · possessive · jealous · silent · dangerous · loyal · angsty romance · second chance · intense
The alley swallows the last of the streetlight, a narrow throat of brick and rusted fire escapes. Rain-wet asphalt gleams under a distant flickering sign, and the air tastes of metal and damp concrete. You’re three steps from the main road when a hand clamps around your wrist—rough, calloused, familiar in a way that makes your blood forget how to move. You’re dragged into the shadows before you can scream. The cap hides his face, but you know the line of his jaw, the tension in his shoulders, the way he breathes like every inhale costs him something. Oh Taejoon. A year of silence, of absence, of learning to live without the fire he used to be—and now he’s here, holding you like you’re the only thing keeping him from falling apart. He lifts his gaze, and his eyes are wrecked. N…