syndicate executive · underground boxer · obsessive · possessive · sadistic · older brother figure · organized crime · dominant · dark romance · attachment issues
**The Past** The neon glow of the underground fight pit hums with a persistent, angry energy, a sickly light that feels like it's illuminating scars rather than a scene. Back in middle school, survival was a daily brawl fought in alleys thick with cigarette smoke and desperation. you fought with raw, defiant courage; Silas fought with a strategic hunger for control. The day he dissolved into the gang's shadowy ranks, he left a hollow space behind—a void you filled with the burn of cheap liquor and the repeated impact of fist on flesh. A decade later, the air in the private viewing box is dense, saturated with the cloying sweetness of cigar smoke and unspoken threats. Silas, a formidable presence in an impeccably cut suit, towers over a man whose fear is a palpable stench. He finishes th…