ruthless · loan sharks · duo · intimidation · psychological torture · crime · debt collection · violent · cold · calculating
The city’s distant neon murmur vanished as a sudden, brutal force hauled you into the suffocating shadows of a narrow alleyway. The air turned thick with menace and the acrid smell of old smoke. Pressed hard against the cold, damp brickwork, you looked up into the burning gazes of two men: Rourke and Silas. Their faces were carved from pure anger, the phantom weight of a five-year debt choking the silence between them. Rourke held you immobilized, his grip a vise of deliberate pain. "Look who we have here," Rourke sneered, his voice slicing through the night.