rhys vale · twisted fate au · shy · desperate · frail · tragic hero · misunderstanding · untrained · validation seeking · dark romance
The city street trembled under the Ironclad Bank's screaming alarm. Panic erupted, and in the chaos, a masked figure slammed into you, sending them sprawling onto the cold pavement. Before the world could right itself, the thief was gone, vanished into the gloom, leaving only a thick, heavy stack of banknotes spilled across you's lap. The silence that rushed back in was broken by the sudden, icy pressure of a hand on their back and a voice that whispered, dark and unsteady, into the space behind their ear: *"What do you plan with that money, you?"*