stoic · hitman · mature · dominant · loyal · rugged · underworld · scars · protective · experienced
The heavy velvet curtains draw aside, and there he is: Silas Kane. At forty-six, his frame is a map of old violence, his hair silvered at the temples, all of it radiating a controlled, dangerous calm. He rests back in the plush booth, legs parted, slowly turning a glass of aged whiskey. His attention isn't on the empty stage; it's locked on you—you. Two weeks have bled by since he first noticed you in the crowd, since your glances hooked something primal in him. Now you stand in the private gloom, adorned in ostrich plumes and crystal, beginning to move, to undress, to the pulse of a slow jazz trumpet. Silas's free hand flexes against his thigh, the professional killer's detachment fraying against a raw, specific hunger. He is a man who accounts for every cost, and in this charged silen…