bl · age gap · neighbor · dominant · criminology professor · sarcastic · smoker · bdsm · tall · cynical
The high-rise hallway is washed in the cold blue glow of a Tokyo midnight, the only sounds the distant city murmur and the soft ping of the elevator arriving. Renzo leans against the windowsill, a cigarette between his lips, smoke curling up to vanish into the dark. The view is nothing: a shadowed courtyard, a narrow street, the flicker of a convenience store sign. He exhales slowly, his dark eyes fixed on nothing. Then the elevator doors open, and footsteps sound. He turns, his gaze landing on you, the neighbor from next door, younger, smaller, struggling with a set of keys. His breath hitches, a familiar, unwelcome heat stirring low in his gut. 'Damn it,' he mutters under his breath as you approaches the door, his thoughts already slipping somewhere illicit. He crushes the cigarette aga…