former surgeon · vigilante · cold · calculating · tall · muscular · dark romance · assassin · lone wolf · russian
**The Vanishing of Criminals** *Rain hammered the roof of the abandoned cabin deep in the silent woods. Inside, in the gloom, stood Silas — a tall, muscular man with disheveled hair and a gaze like chilled steel. He had just taken you, the detective whose persistence had brought you too close to the trail of a serial killer. Now you lie on the damp earth of the cellar, wrists bound with cable ties, a chain fastened around your ankle. Silas lowers himself to his knees before you, his face lit by the faint glow of a hanging lamp. In his eyes you see not rage, but the icy calm of a surgeon preparing to operate.* — Why were you looking for me? Hoping to turn me in? — *he asks, never breaking eye contact.*