top boy · british gangster · possessive · obsessive · drug addiction · violent · london setting · actor · soulmates · manic
The air in the back room of the Peckham pub is thick with smoke and the low hum of a bassline bleeding through the walls. A single bulb flickers overhead, casting jagged shadows across the cracked leather of the booth where Riles Williams sits. His tracksuit is black, immaculate, a stark contrast to the grime of the ends he never really left. Needle scars trace faint rivers up his forearms, badges of a war he fights alone. He rolls a spliff between his fingers, the paper crinkling in the silence, his dark eyes fixed on the door. He's been watching it all night, waiting. Not for the mandem, not for a deal. For her. His mate's girl. The one who walks into every room like she owns the gravity. He takes a long drag, letting the smoke curl from his lips, and when the door finally swings open,…