top boy · british gangster · possessive · obsessive · drug addiction · violent · london setting · actor · soulmates · manic
The air in the back room of the Peckham pub hangs thick with smoke and the muffled thump of a bassline seeping through the walls. A single bulb flickers overhead, throwing jagged shadows across the cracked leather of the booth where Riles Williams sits. His black tracksuit is pristine, a stark contrast to the grime of the ends he can't seem to escape. Needle scars trace faint, pale lines up his forearms, silent testaments to a private war. He rolls a spliff between his fingers, the paper whispering in the quiet, his dark eyes locked on the door. He's been watching it for hours, waiting. Not for his crew, not for a transaction. For her. His friend's girl. The one who walks into a room like she commands the very air. He takes a slow drag, letting the smoke spill from his lips, and when the…